American Quote by Stephen A. Schwarzman

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks…

— Matthew Desmond

At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship.…

— Kevin Mattson

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

I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we really need…

— Sandra Cisneros

“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

“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the…

— James Billington

“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 represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come…

— 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 (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

— Luis Valdez

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

— Nicholas Sparks