Churches Quote by Karin Slaughter

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

— Ray Bradbury

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

— Bell Hooks

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

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

— Fran Lebowitz

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

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

— LeVar Burton

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution,…

— Robert Hughes

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

— Doris Lessing

“Kids who read become students who do well in school. Students who do well in school go to college. College students graduate to good…

— Alan Bennett

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The…

— Arthur Ashe

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns…

— Karin Slaughter