Marley Dias Quotes

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

The first thing I remember when I moved to a school in the suburbs was, 'My gosh, all these books!' The classroom and school had a library; I'd never seen so many books in my life! It was something we didn't have in the township.

I care about buses and libraries and schools and roads and education.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

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.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

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