J. D. Salinger Quotes

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Students in school cheat not to get the 'A,' but to avoid the 'C.'

Teachers are free to teach, but not to preach—to educate but not to indoctrinate.

Taxpayers, lawmakers and donors need to wake from the spell cast by American universities’ past glory. Only then can they summon the courage to withdraw funding and force the necessary change: replacing faux-academic political activists with real academic thinkers—people who care about original thought, not peddling an ideology.

I was a librarian in a city school.

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

To start with, look at all the books.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library