Alma mater Quote by Malcolm X

My alma mater was books, a good library.

— Malcolm X

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage…

— David Mamet

I spent my life in the library reading books.

— Michael Caine

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion…

— Nikola Tesla

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had…

— Karin Slaughter

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

— David Mamet

I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw,…

— Linus Pauling

My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year…

— Naomi Alderman

My mom was a librarian, so I spent most of my childhood in libraries, learning to love their potential for imagination and knowledge.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a…

— Alex Haley

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had…

— Geraldine Brooks