Laura Bush Quotes

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

May books spread the world over!

A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both ... And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives.

Printing means democracy because it brings knowledge within the reach of the common people, and knowledge, in the long run, is sure to make good its claim to power.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

Whatever the cost of our libraries is, it is cheap compared to the cost of an ignorant nation.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.