America Quote by Nevada Barr

In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and…

— Marilyn Johnson

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books…

— Courtney Milan

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn…

— Marilyn Johnson

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to…

— Zadie Smith

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs…

— John Jakes

I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help…

— Andrew Carnegie

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

“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

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

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

— Walter Cronkite

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to…

— Patrick Ness

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

— Willard Scott