Top 82 My School Library Quotes

#1. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My School Library Quotes #21852
#2. I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

Gregory Colbert

My School Library Quotes #62580
#3. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

John Niven

My School Library Quotes #70217
#4. showed up at the school library and huddled

Aabra

My School Library Quotes #83753
#5. I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

Kam Williams

My School Library Quotes #88948
#6. He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

Jennifer Lanthier

My School Library Quotes #121998
#7. I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.

Hilary Mantel

My School Library Quotes #140502
#8. Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none.

Julie Andrews

My School Library Quotes #153451
#9. The humble little school library ... was a ramp to everything
in the world and beyond, everything that could be dreamed and
imagined, everything that could be known, everything that could be hoped.

Lee Sherman

My School Library Quotes #193019
#10. Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn't feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.

Stephen King

My School Library Quotes #194774
#11. Drake is my own personal suicide, and the sooner I except that, the sooner I can come to terms with my loner status at the school library

Addison Moore

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#12. Access to a school library results in more reading.

Stephen D. Krashen

My School Library Quotes #207340
#13. I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

Paul Begala

My School Library Quotes #207863
#14. Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

Stephen D. Krashen

My School Library Quotes #236273
#15. I don't need to buy books. I've got the whole of the library at the New School, as well as my iPad. Why do people still buy books? They just take up space.

Deborah Meyler

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#16. ... in the library ... surrounded by things far more dangerous than what roamed the school corridors. For here thoughts were housed.

Louise Penny

My School Library Quotes #311192
#17. But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn't go into the library?"
"Students," said Senior Wrangler morosely.

Terry Pratchett

My School Library Quotes #386613
#18. Well I just so happened to bump into a chess book in the library at school and I didn't know that there were books on chess and so I take this book out and I'm like this is going to be cool, I'm going to whoop on this guy now, so I studied the book and I go back and the guy crushes me again.

Maurice Ashley

My School Library Quotes #438091
#19. The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher. - Melvil Dewey, 1876

John Palfrey

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#20. If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

Andrew Carnegie

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#21. The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Croly

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#22. He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag.
"My God," he said. "What happened?"
"I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.

Laura Whitcomb

My School Library Quotes #504057
#23. My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

Julianne Moore

My School Library Quotes #511339
#24. What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.

Harold Howe

My School Library Quotes #518977
#25. The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Louis L'Amour

My School Library Quotes #519849
#26. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury

My School Library Quotes #523991
#27. My first contact with game theory was a popular article in 'Fortune Magazine' which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter, and when I studied mathematics, I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.

Reinhard Selten

My School Library Quotes #553607
#28. I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions and time travel. Every time I went to the library, every time I asked people these questions, I would get some strange looks. Nobody could answer any of these questions.

Michio Kaku

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#29. I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Colin Mochrie

My School Library Quotes #561069
#30. An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just for you and gave familiar landmarks an individualism that they usually lacked when surrounded by people.

Adrianne Brooks

My School Library Quotes #628400
#31. I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

Willow Shields

My School Library Quotes #662792
#32. When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either "You're joking, right?" or "They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

Scott Douglas

My School Library Quotes #729489
#33. My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

Umberto Eco

My School Library Quotes #762643
#34. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

Fran Lebowitz

My School Library Quotes #799431
#35. The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

Christine Quinn

My School Library Quotes #825306
#36. I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. 'Who authorized this?' the principal would ask. The answer: 'Howie Mandel.'

Howie Mandel

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#37. Sometimes I wonder. On the pathetic scale, where would I land? I know other kids my age would go to the mall if they cut school, but I'm off to the library.

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

My School Library Quotes #836813
#38. I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

Chelsea Cain

My School Library Quotes #842897
#39. I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.

Jamie Johnson

My School Library Quotes #843513
#40. Because Library School will take up two whole years of my life, I have decided to keep a journal of events/feelings/reactions to it as long as I can stick it out. Judging from today, that might not be too long, but I will start with a reaction to yesterday so it will not be forgotten.

Pearl Cleage

My School Library Quotes #847437
#41. When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

Dallas Willard

My School Library Quotes #849897
#42. Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.

Woody Allen

My School Library Quotes #856513
#43. The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

Lynda Barry

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#44. I was fortunate to attend a school with an excellent library

Syrie James

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#45. Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

Neal Shusterman

My School Library Quotes #1009814
#46. I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.

Scott Douglas

My School Library Quotes #1011960
#47. From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

Julia Glass

My School Library Quotes #1030127
#48. If there's one overarching theme in "Guys Read", it's the simple but important message: "read what you like, when you like, whatever that happens to be.

School Library Journal

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#49. In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation.

Elizabeth McCracken

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#50. NYU Film School was the way to learn about film, to be exposed to film, to go to repertory houses, to be exposed to New York and see films. I would go to the library and see one, two or three movies a day.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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#51. Open the book and read it to renew your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#52. I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

Malala Yousafzai

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#53. I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

Bitsie Tulloch

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#54. We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

Dolly Parton

My School Library Quotes #1208448
#55. It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'

Kevin Brownlow

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#56. The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

Stephen D. Krashen

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#57. The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Melvil Dewey

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#58. It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

My School Library Quotes #1331730
#59. What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

Malorie Blackman

My School Library Quotes #1333810
#60. When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury

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#61. Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Frank Zappa

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#62. You can't stay in the library all day!" I hiss, sitting next to him.
"This is a school. Studying is encouraged."
"What exactly are you studying?"
He folds the paper and gives me his cat grin. "History students.

Kiersten White

My School Library Quotes #1406128
#63. I started to go to the library, devouring every book I could lay my hands on. Once I began a book, I couldn't put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night in school, where I'd keep the book hidden so I could read during class

Haruki Murakami

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#64. An evil librarian is taking over the school. He appears to be making my best friend his special evil library monitor.

Michelle Knudsen

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#65. Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.

Arthur Ashe

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#66. There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Ray Bradbury

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#67. I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

Michael Sims

My School Library Quotes #1582185
#68. She asked her parents to buy him the books she'd been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad. "What's the point of buying books for someone who can't read?" her parents asked, legitimately enough, and so she checked them out of her school library and read them to Rahul herself.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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#69. I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.

Joan Didion

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#70. There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city, [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting prospect, she said - a network of natural libraries for teaching children about the region's rare and fragile ecosystems - and about themselves.

Richard Louv

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#71. We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

David McCullough

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#72. It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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#73. I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

Sandra Cisneros

My School Library Quotes #1691874
#74. She hated everything. The library with its pile of books full of explanations about life; the school that had forced her to spend whole evenings learning algebra, even though she didn't know a single person, apart from teachers and mathematicians, who needed algebra in order to be happy.

Paulo Coelho

My School Library Quotes #1719553
#75. I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics ... Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

Isaac Asimov

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#76. We find paradise in every library and bookshop.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#77. My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

Elise Broach

My School Library Quotes #1769042
#78. A school library is like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

True, the superhero is more likely to be wearing a cardigan than a batsuit, but still...

Tom Angleberger

My School Library Quotes #1799045
#79. I was going to the library, too. I'd get my parents to drop me off at the library on their way to work in the morning during school vacations. Sometimes my dad would embarrass me by making me take sandwiches. I was absolutely fine given the prospect of a day spent with books and not eating.

Neil Gaiman

My School Library Quotes #1830867
#80. Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Laura Bush

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#81. I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

Brian Posehn

My School Library Quotes #1869153
#82. I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

Terry Pratchett

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