Affinity Quote by John Jakes

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

— Janis Ian

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly…

— Jodi Rell

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

— Susan Orlean

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children…

— Barack Obama

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one…

— Kim Boykin

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries…

— David Horowitz

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries…

— Paula Poundstone

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized…

— James A. Michener

I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about…

— David McCullough

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks…

— Barbara Bush

“Libraries represent the sole contemporary American institution with the potential for making available a wide-ranging, genuinely diverse spectrum of opinions, cultural expressions, and ideas…

— Sanford Berman

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when…

— Nicholas Meyer