You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be –
I had a mother who read to me.
~Strickland Gillilan (Thanks, Laurel)
Nov 052014
Nov 052014
Always look on the bright side of life. Otherwise it’ll be too dark to read. ~Author Unknown
Nov 032014
Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
Steven Wright
Oct 262014
“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sep 032014
“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
Aug 202014
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history”
― Carl T. Rowan
Aug 172014
“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.”
― Matt Finch
Aug 152014
“Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.”
― Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
Aug 132014
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein
Aug 072014
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest