“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
Isaac Asimov
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose”
George Carlin
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them”
Mark Twain
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future”
Ray Bradbury