Laura Bush Quotes

Libraries raised me.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.

I love to read and learn.

It's always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn for myself. Be it from books, TV or the Internet, I try to know what happened in the world.

Reading is important because it makes you smarter and lets you find out about things you're curious about.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

Books always help.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.