Friends of the Richmond Public Library

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages—and sages—and, simply put, there’s something for everyone inside.

Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.

Andrew Carnegie, industrialist & philanthropist

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Studs Terkel, broadcaster & historian