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Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.


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JODI RELL Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other ga...
JONATHAN ZITTRAIN Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
DAVID STRATHAIRN Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks an...
SAM WELLER Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if p...
NICHOLAS MEYER Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...
JO WALTON Libraries are our friends.
NEIL GAIMAN Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
ZIG ZIGLAR All the books in all the libraries in all the world are of no use if little Johnny can't read.
RAIN BOJANGLES The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
ART MODELL Our libraries are unique as each of us, but we have common goals.
DAWN LLOYD Love: so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the ...
AVIJEET DAS Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I...
SIMON VAN BOOY Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
JOSH BILLINGS There clearly are a small percentage of users who have taken advantage of filing sharing services to...
RUSS CRUPNICK Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder
GAIL HONEYMAN I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we w...
ALAN MOORE Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for...
LAURA BUSH Our students must be taught the 21st century research skills they need to learn and achieve in schoo...
LINDA WILLIAMS There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
THOMAS L. MASSON If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Wisdom is my religion. Books are my priest. Libraries are my temple. Enlightenment is my heaven.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, we recognized that the needs of school libraries were under-served...
DAVID PERDUE Libraries are not made, they grow
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Libraries are not made, they grow.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation c...
CARL STOKES A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am ...
CHRIS RIDDELL You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel th...
ROBIN SLOAN There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle r...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's long since passed when libraries were known as a repository for books.
GILBERT TREMBLAY All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...
NICK HORNBY There is no Ruth Eckerd Hall in Palm Harbor, so for a community like ours, libraries are serving as ...
GENE COPPOLA The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and...
GENE NELSON To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about...
JON BING That?s why libraries are still struggling.
JOANNE VAVREK [Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

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JOHN F. KENNEDY Some presidential libraries are so celebratory that they verge on propaganda.
BENJAMIN HUFBAUER What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our librarie...
JOHN RUSKIN I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...
ROGER ZELAZNY Clever, smart and wise people have one in common that they read quotes, they are curious for knowled...
DEYTH BANGER The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their librarie...
R. S. STORRS If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY ...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
LEMONY SNICKET The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no c...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
WILLIAM JAMES Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition ...
JOHN CALLAHAN We work with all the libraries of Somerset County, and several of them have dedicated spaces for us.
BETH KULLBACK All three of the libraries are entering into a time, or have already been in a time, when they face ...
BRUCE EGLI Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Libraries raised me.
RAY BRADBURY Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
TAMORA PIERCE Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Public broadcasters, libraries and museums have a unique ability to connect people to their communit...
PATRICIA HARRISON Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They...
CHARLES OGDEN I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books....
TERRY PRATCHETT A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudl...
TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When the cost of inflation is taken into account, the cut is almost $2 billion in real terms for sch...
EDWARD KEALY What in the world would we do without our libraries?
KATHARINE HEPBURN Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
WALTER CRONKITE Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire...
SIDNEY SHELDON We circulated over 2 million items in 2005. We had over a million visits to our three library outlet...
ROB EVERETT The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage ...
MICHAEL GORMAN There's been a declining audience for network TV for a while, People have their own libraries of thi...
FRANK SPOTNITZ I continually hear people say that having libraries open is part of their need for normalcy. We grea...
LON DICKERSON We want to capture the 90 percent of people who think libraries are a good idea, but who don't use i...
MARTA MERSEREAU People who go to places of worship, people who go to libraries, people who are in chat rooms, are go...
LAURA MURPHY It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no lib...
NOAM CHOMSKY Libraries can take the place of God.
UMBERTO ECO All of the libraries and schools that were devastated in the hurricane are suffering for the books t...
CHUCK LEAVELL To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of pub...
BARBARA TUCHMAN La La Land -- that's where libraries are supposed to take us.
DREW PERKINS It's always been senseless to me that we have enormous legal libraries and folks who spend way too m...
RICHARD LYLES I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav...
RAY BRADBURY Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
SARAH J. MAAS It is really important to have a good sale this year because the libraries' budget for new books fro...
CATHY CLARK Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON People are still using libraries as physical facilities, we had over 1,000 meetings and 36,000 meeti...
ROB EVERETT I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without ...
WILLARD SCOTT Many consumers have made a significant investment in DVD libraries.
GREG HART Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.
BAYARD TAYLOR The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in ...
CARL ROWAN The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. O...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO It is a vanity to persuade the world one hath much learning, by getting a great library.
THOMAS FULLER Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and t...
FRANCIS BACON Thou can'st not die. Here thou art more than safe Where every book is thy epitaph.
HENRY VAUGHAN ("THE SILURIST")

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JODI PICOULT The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
JODI PICOULT Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
JODI PICOULT Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
JODI PICOULT If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do...
JODI PICOULT Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i...
JODI PICOULT Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want...
JODI PICOULT It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ...
JODI PICOULT You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
JODI PICOULT Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
JODI PICOULT You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y...
JODI PICOULT It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
JODI PICOULT How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...
JODI PICOULT I know you love me. The question is, how much?
JODI PICOULT What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge...
JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a...
JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...
JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul...
JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ...
JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?"

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JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice
JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't...
JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
JODI PICOULT Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House ag...
JODI KANTOR One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every da...
JODI KANTOR The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ...
JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ...
JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack.

There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru...
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