Friends of the Richmond Public Library

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Ray Bradbury, author

A library is the home for the imagination.

Lisa Scottoline, author

If you want to find your happy place, just go to the library.

Lizzie K. Foley, author

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind—humanity in print.

Barbara Tuchman, historian & author

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