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
Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), playwright
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
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl T. Rowan, journalist & 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