Dorothea Dix Quotes

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

A library is thought in cold storage.

A library implies an act of faith.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.

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.

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

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I'm a bookworm.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

To start with, look at all the books.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

Let all the time you can get be spent in trying to learn to read.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I like reading. I just hate school.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.