Promise Living Library: Libraries

Why Does Our Library Grow?

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." — Charles William Elliot

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes." — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." — C.S. Lewis

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." — George Bernard Shaw

"A house without books is like a room without windows." — Horace Mann

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books" — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall." — Roald Dahl

"When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does." — Nora Ephron (You've Got Mail)

"Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." — Louisa May Alcott

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack." — Virginia Woolf

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all." — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before." — Clifton Fadiman

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