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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. -- Laura Bush
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. -- Katherine Paterson
Access to a school library results in more reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation. -- Stephen D. Krashen
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
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
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
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
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
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
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible. -- Richard Louv
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope will keep readers all over the UK exploring and sharing the wonderful world of books. -- Tessa Jowell
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
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
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
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love. -- Jess Walter
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. -- Robert Darnton
A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France. -- Quentin Blake
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. -- Bitsie Tulloch
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. -- Lynda Barry
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
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
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. -- Karen DeCrow
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term. -- Anthony Browne
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. -- Henry Rollins
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. -- Nicholas Meyer
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things. -- Aravind Adiga
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
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. -- Sachin Tendulkar
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
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children. -- Scott Turow
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
I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. -- Gregory Colbert
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
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. -- Tom Angleberger
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
I taught myself more in the library than school taught me. -- Terry Pratchett
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. -- Ray Bradbury
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. -- Harold Howe

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