Quotes on Libraries And Reading

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

A house without books is like a room without windows.