“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who live to invest in our youth, who read for knowledge and fun, and who are ready to include anyone who walks through the door.”
Anonymous
“Words like winter snowflakes.”
Homer, c. 700 B.C., Iliad, Book III
“In your rocking chair by your window shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
“Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters”
Mason Cooley, U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection
“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy. Of Reading