“Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.”
“Without the library, you have no civilization.”
“Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.”
“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”
“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library”
“Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.”