Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
Interpretation
Reading is fundamental to our existence, and libraries are essential for knowledge and civilization.
This quote by Ray Bradbury emphasizes the pivotal role that reading plays in our daily lives and the importance of libraries as repositories of human knowledge. By equating the library to our brain, it suggests that access to literature and information is crucial for cultivating an informed society. Without such access, civilization would struggle to thrive and progress.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of supporting public libraries.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? βShe drove me to my practice at four in the morning,β etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home.
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.
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