Books Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

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

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as…

— John Ruskin

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

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would…

— Garry Disher

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children…

— Barack Obama

I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I…

— Karin Slaughter

I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my…

— Marion Dane Bauer

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not…

— Katherine Paterson

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

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

— Henry Ward Beecher