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“But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book budget had been slashed and the hours cut. Her parents had made a lot of mistakes, a fa...”
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers”
“The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no one at least, no male person ever consulted works of ...”
“A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignit...”
“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its ess”
“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 information superhighways of the future.”
“in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder”
“Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the informat...”
“...it's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the ...”
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.”
“Late fees are the enemy of early literacy because instead of promoting responsible behavior, they suppress library visits for some of the people who need the institution the most. And of course the...”
“Libraries and Prison are playing same role but both places give you some lesson in your life.”
“Libraries are congenial places but unfortunately none of us like these places because we hates books and books are leading us to better direction.”
“To love books mean to love Libraries, to love libraries mean to love knowledge and to love knowledge mean to love creator.”
“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas”
“I have never seen a peaceful environment better than libraries”
“People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books”
“Most beautiful places where I found myself satisfied were libraries”
“the rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries.”
“Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman”
