Ann Richards Quotes

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

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.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

Libraries are where it all begins.

May books spread the world over!

Libraries raised me.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Reading is a huge part of life.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

Man is what he reads.

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I cannot live without books.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.