Bess Truman Quotes

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

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

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

Your library is your paradise.

Man is what he reads.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

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

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

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.

We read books to find out who we are.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

When in doubt, go to the library.