Quotes on Library Books

This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

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

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

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.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

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 student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

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.