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  • #1
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #2
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
    And all the sweet serenity of books”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #3
    Saul Bellow
    “People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #4
    Garrison Keillor
    “A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #5
    C.S. Lewis
    “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #6
    Gary D. Schmidt
    “The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.”
    Gary D. Schmidt, Trouble

  • #7
    Tamora Pierce
    “Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
    Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

  • #8
    Gail Carson Levine
    “A library is infinity under a roof.”
    Gail Carson Levine

  • #9
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #10
    “In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.”
    Linton Weeks

  • #11
    Germaine Greer
    “Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."

    [Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
    Germaine Greer, Daddy, We Hardly Knew You

  • #12
    “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
    Anne Herbert

  • #13
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
    Henry Ward Beecher

  • #14
    Alberto Manguel
    “But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. ”
    Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

  • #15
    Emily Dickinson
    “There is no Frigate like a Book
    To take us Lands away
    Nor any Coursers like a Page
    Of prancing Poetry –
    This Traverse may the poorest take
    Without oppress of Toll –
    How frugal is the Chariot
    That bears a Human soul.”
    Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems

  • #16
    Sarah Beth Durst
    “She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.”
    Sarah Beth Durst

  • #17
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #18
    Sid Fleischman
    “The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.”
    Sid Fleischman

  • #19
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #20
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #22
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #25
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #26
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #27
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #28
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #29
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #30
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #31
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches



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