Stephen Fry Quotes

Books are the greatest weapons against the assholes of the world.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

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

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

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

I think books can give rise to empowerment.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

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

The world was hers for the reading.

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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.

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.

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

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

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