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[Sandra Lee Parks <sparks@PEN.K12.VA.US>]

Thanks to all of y'all who contributed -- I've got a good
selection. If anyone can fill in any of themissing authors, let
me know.

Thanks!

Sandy Parks
Harrisonburg High School
Harrisonburg, VA
sparks@pen.k12.va.us


Some bok leave us free and some books make us free.  Ralph
Waldo Emerson

i purchased a poster that listed all of these quotes on it.
None were
annotated.  Sorry :
The proper study of mankind is books.  Books we mujst have
though we lack
bread.  The true university of these days is a collection of
books.  No
furniture is so charming as books.  Books are often wiser than
their
readers.  Beware the man or one book.  A man who can read books
and does
not has no advantage over a man who can not read.  All the
glory of the
world would be lost in oblivion unless god had provided mortals
with the
remedy fo books.  Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

 Andre Maurois:  The art of reading is in
great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life
from one's
encounter with it in a book."


During Children's Book Week, I used as the theme for my library
"Reading is
a habit you never outgrow" and had guest readers from high
school age up
through a lady nearly 70.  I can only attribute the quote to
me, unless I
heard it somewhere and forgot about hearing it...subconsciously
remembered
it...not famous or anything.  A library quote I read is "a
month in the lab
will save you a couple of hours in the library."  I liked
that...it was
anonymous.  Is reading month something you have for your
school, or have I
missed something???


I find television very educating.  Every time somebody turns on
the set
I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx


Dear Sandy, A favorite quote, but alas no source : " A reader
is not one
who can read.  A reader is one who does read."



Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body...make
reading a
daily habit.  Don't know who.....I have it posted on the wall.
[Joseph Addison]


I can't remember the exact quote or the author (but I'm sure I
originally got if from eith Bartlett's or Home Book of
Quotations)
for much the same reason you are looking.

        When I am dead I hope it will be said
        His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.



        Senator Paul Simon wrote a book called Beginnings,
which contains a
great essay about reading.  Perhaps you could take excerpts
from the book.


You may be interested in Larry A. Parsons's "A Funny Thing
Happened on the
Way to the School Library: a Treasury of Anecdotes, Quotes, and
Other
Happenings."  (Libraries Unlimited, 1990) -- catalog available
by calling
1-800-237-6124.  Many good quotes on almost everything
connected with reading
and books and librarianship.  :)

and it doewn't work properly to correct mistakes; here goes,
however. One of my
"Against Borders" by Hazel Rochman, ALA reviewer.  In the
foreword, she syas,
"Reading is a solitary activity; yet it breakes barriers with
the world." p.11

 "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over
the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain.

Books were my path th personal freedom - Oprah Winfrey

If I do not read, no one will - Emerson

It is a tie between men to have read the same book - Emerson

Tis the good reader that makes the good book - Emerson

All good and true book-lovers practise the pleasing and
improving
avocation of reading in bed.  Eugene Field

Reading makes a full man -- mediation a profound man--discourse
a clear man.
  Poor Richard, Benjamin Franklin

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. Logan
Pearsall Smith

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is
a noble
exercise.Thoreau

To what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of
man?They are
the only oracles which are not decayed.  Henry D. Thoreau