National Library Week
April 8 -14, 2012

In celebration of National Library Week, I thought I would share some of my favorite quotes about  libraries, books and reading.

“I cannot live without books.”
                                                      -Thomas Jefferson

“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”  – Katharine Hepburn

“When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. ” – Marie de Sevigne

“To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.”  -Cicero

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”   – Frederick Douglass

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”-Dr. Seuss

“If you want your children to be brilliant, read them fairly tales. If you want them to be geniuses, read them more fairy tales.”  – Albert Einstein

“I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.”  - Robert Cormier

“A life without stories would be no life at all.”  – Alexander McCall Smith

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.” – Jean Fritz

“A library is a fuelling station for your mind.” - Steve Leveen

“I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.” – Carl Sagan

“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.” – A. Edward Newton

“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.” – Erma Bombeck

“Books are for letting us imagine lives other than our own.” – Emma Donoghue

Happy National Library Week!

- Karen