Friends of the Richmond Public Library

  • A library is the home for the imagination.

    Lisa Scottoline, author

  • There are many ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

    Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady of the United States

  • Libraries: cafeterias for food that feeds the mind.

    Louise Yelin, author

  • A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

    Henry Ward Beecher, author

  • 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, tennis champion & human rights activist

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