Quotations about Libraries, Books and Reading

" Libraries enable the past to talk to the future"
--Edward Cornish

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
Jorge Luis Borges

" I cannot live without books "
--Thomas Jefferson

" Information is the currency of democracy" - Thomas Jefferson

" Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."
--Mortimer J. Adler

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends:they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,and the most patient of teachers"
--Charles W. Eliot

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg,we pray,Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall
--Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

" A library is a fuelling station for your mind "
--Steve Leveen