Ray Bradbury Quotes

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Libraries are where it all begins.

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

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

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.

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

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

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.

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

When I was 14, I saw a library for the first time.

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

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

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.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

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

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

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