Simon Van Booy Quotes

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

The health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support out libraries.

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.

A library implies an act of faith.

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.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

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

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.)

My alma mater was books, a good library.

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

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I like reading. I just hate school.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.