Book Quote by Paula Poundstone

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

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A good library’s existence is a potential step forward for a community. If hate and fear have ignorance at their core, maybe the library…

— Josh Hanagarne

“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.”

— Matt Finch

“The truth is out there, but the truth also seems to be very subjective. With access to so many types of information, there is…

— Gina Sheridan

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

“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

“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always…

— Barack Obama

“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

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our…

— Vartan Gregorian

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

— Barack Obama

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

— Matthew Lesko