Frank Delaney Quotes

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

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.

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.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

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

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

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.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

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

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

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.

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

Libraries have been sanctuaries, a place I can go to discover.

Libraries are the backbone of our education system.

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.