Laura Bush Quotes

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

I was a member of Corstorphine Library in Edinburgh, and every Friday night, my parents took me there to borrow books. I also used to spend nearly all my pocket money on books.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.

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

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real continuity from one generation to the next, and the next after that. So long as we keep reading, and reading to our children, there will be hope for our shared cultural heritage and the future of our world.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.