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- Subject: HIT> Favorite Library Quotes
- From: Deborah Lowenburg <dpl@EPIX.NET>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:02:09 -0500
Thanks to all who responded to my request for favorite library quotes.
Here are the results:
From: Judyth Lessee <rinophyl@rtd.com>
"Our chief want in life is someone who will make us do what we can."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves"
Oliver Goldsmith
"In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth while the learned,
beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists, perish."
Eric Hoffer?
Know less. Understand more.
To create the future, challenge the past.
"Education is what remains, when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B.F. Skinner
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From: Jamie Boston <jamieb@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us>
My favorite library quotes which adorn my web page are:
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library -
Jorge Luis Borge
Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it's very
dark. - Groucho Marx
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From: LibraryLu@aol.com
Teddy Roosevelt:
"While reaching for the stars keep your feet planted on the ground."
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From: Marcia Garman Zorn <marciaz@tenet.edu>
"I always say a book a day keeps the brain on its way. So that's why the
library is important to me." Reesha Khan, age 8, Tampa, Florida
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From: Donna J Reidhead <reidhead@psd.k12.co.us>
Deborah, this isn't strictly a library quote, but it's one of my favorites.
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."
Aristotle
And "A good education should leave much to be desired." Alan Gregg
Or "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is
the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Marie Curie
And finally "If you learn one uesless thing every day, in a single year,
you'll learn 365 useless things." Ashleigh Brilliant ;-)
Can't wait to see you HIT! DJR
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From: Janet Thomas <jthomas@tenet.edu>
Here are my favorites:
"I cannot live without books" --Thomas Jefferson
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." --Jorge
Luis Borges
"When I get a little money, I buy books; and, if any is left, I buy food
and clothes." --Erasmus
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From: Joanne Berndt <Joanne_Berndt@richmond.sd38.bc.ca>
I hear I forget
I see I remember
I do I learn
I reflect I improve
Kanwal I. S. Neel
Hi Deborah,
This saying is from the LAN resume of one of our teachers here in Richmond,
British Columbia, Canada. When I saw your request I thought of the
appropriateness of this quote to the school setting.
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From: "Elaine Donoghue (Wildwood ES)" <edonoghu@k12.oit.umass.edu>
Because I have only one life, I read.>
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From: North Knox <knoxint@ideanet.doe.state.in.us>
"Telling is not teaching, listening is not learning" annonymous
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From: "HAROLYN LEGG LIBRARIAN LIBERTY-BENTON H.S. 422-9166"
<LB_LEGG@NOACSC.OHIO.GOV>
My favorite saying is "Some men see things and ask why, I dream things that
never were and ask why not." This was used at Bobby Kennedy's funeral by Teddy and
it comes from
a poem by Wordsworth I think.
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From: BSTINE@mecn.mass.edu
One of my favorites is one that a fellow LM_NETter uses in his/her signature:
"It's no use going to school unless the library is your final
destination." ...Ray Bradbury.
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From: Sarah Giddings <sarahgid@juno.com>
"Books are the Carriers of Civilization" - Barbara Tuchman
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From: Janet Hofstetter <JHOFSTETTER@admin.california.k12.mo.us>
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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From: Joy Choppin <jchoppin@gprep.pvt.k12.md.us>
How about a quote from Thomas Jefferson,
"I can not live without books."
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From: Darlene DeHudy <ddehudy@remc4.k12.mi.us>
Knowledge is Power! ddehudy@remc4.k12.mi.us
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From: Carl Seale <cseale@tenet.edu>
"Man's reach should exceed his grasp
Else what's a heaven for."
"Rabai Ben Ezra" (I think) by Robert Browning (I'm sure)
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From: emily_h@TRECA.OHIO.GOV
Deborah, I've adapted the following quote from something
I heard on television:
Dreams are where we want to go, work is how we get there.
One that my mother had on a plaque in the hallway while I
was growing up, I think it is a Chineses proverb is:
Today is the tommorrow that you worried about yesterday.
Others that I've recently collected (some from this list server)
are:
A book in the hand is worth two on the disk.
I must say, television is very educational. The minute
someone turns it on, I go to the library and find a
good book. - Groucho Marx
If only one person out of a hundred and fifty million should
continue as a reader, he would be the one worth saving.
-E. B. White
When I get a little money I buy books; And, if any is left
I buy food and clothes. - Erasmus
The only place success comes before work is in the
dictionary.
Reading turns the windmill of your mind.
The shortest way to do many things is to one
thing at a time. - Richard Cecil
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them
is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky, Russian born U. S. poet
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From: ROBIN HOELLE <ba_hoelle@PO.SWOCA.OHIO.GOV>
"I want him to know the sneaky, subtle, important reason he was born a
human being and not a chair." Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns
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From: Jody Gerlock <Jody_Gerlock@pds.k12.nj.us>
"The part of my education that has had the deepest influence wasn't any
particular essay or even a specific class, it was how I was able to apply
everything I learned in the library to certain situations in my life."
-Gloria Estefan
"I cannot think of a time in my life when the library didn't exert a potent
attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual's
curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it."-Scott Turow, author
"With my library card I am rich."-Loreta Jordan, Washington D.C.
"As a child, I lived to read books. The library was a window to the world, a
pathway to worlds and people far from my neighborhood in Philadelphia."-Ed
Bradley, 60 Minutes
"The library is more than books, it's life."-Sonnoview Hult, age 15, Burley,
Idaho
"Life without my library card-I'd sooner surrender my driver's
license."-Betty Hunt, North Little Rock, Arkansas
"What in the world would we do without our libraries?"-Katharine Hepburn
"As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian. I actually believed
all those books belonged to her. When she warned that some of those books
were too old for me, I told her they were for my mother. I have never
regretted my dishonesty."-Erma Bombeck, author
"Whatever the costs of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of
an ignorant nation."-Walter Cronkite
"If we didn't have libraries, many people thirsty for knowledge would
dehydrate."-Megan Jo Tetrick, age 12, Daleville, Indiana
"My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move
people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to
the library."-Pete Golkin, Arlington, Virginia
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."-Jorge Luis
Borges
"When I get a little money, I buy books; and, if any is left, I buy food and
clothes."-Erasmus
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From: Emily Boutwell <boutwele@oreo.aspire.cs.uah.edu>
Two recently given to me:"When I get a little money, I buy books; and,
if any is left I buy food and clothes>" Erasmus (1466-1536); "I have
always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis
Borges.
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From: Ruby Jean H Arnoth <rarnoth@UDel.Edu>
"Information is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where
to find information on a subject." Dr. Samuel Johnson
I like posters from ALA Graphics catalog, also Upstarts, and Wonderstorms.
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From: nbross <nbross@potlatch.esd112.wednet.edu>
Welcome to Pleasant Valley High School Library, where books chane lives.
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From: Farley Elementary School <hcs0120@hiwaay.net>
"I am the Library. I am neither walls nor shelves nor even the books
that stand in rows. I am the wisdom of the universe captured and
arranged for you. I am an open door...enter."
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From:adamsc@pvlink.afsc.k12.ar.us
I, too, am looking for a short quote to stencil on part of one wall
in my newly remodeled library. I'm anxious to see your HIT list. I
have found one that appeals to me:
"...knowledge is the measure of the mind...
Fulke Greville (1st Baron Brooke)
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From: LAURA VOGEL <vogel_laura@smtpgate.salkeiz.k12.or.us>
The Reader's Bill of Rights
?1. The right to not read.
?2. The right to skip pages.
?3. The right to not finish.
?4. The right to reread.
?5. The right to read anything.
?6. The right to escapism.
?7. The right to read anywhere.
?8. The right to browse.
?9. The right to read out loud.
?10. The right to not defend your tastes.
from Daniel Pennac's _Better Than Life_:
"When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did
before. You see more in you than there was before." Clifton Fadiman
(American essayist)
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labled 'This could
change your life'." Helen Exley
"I am part of all that I have read." John Kieran
"A classic is a book that has never finished what it has to say."
Italo Calvino, b. 1923 (Italian writer)
"Books are the carriers of civilization." Barbara Tuchman, b. 1912
(American historian)
"If we didn't have libraries, many people thirsty for knowledge would
dehydrate."-Megan Jo Tetrick, age 12, Daleville, Indiana.
"My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both
move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding
a bike to the library."-Pete Golkin, Arlington, Virginia.
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to
that of an ignorant nation."-Walter Cronkite.
?The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
?It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts,
?it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world
?and experience of a wide kind.
?It is a moral illumination.
?? -Elizabeth Hardwick
"If school librarians ruled the world, reading would be a varsity
sport."
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
?Joseph Addison
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
?George Herbert, 1593-1633
I cannot live without books.
?Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
?Tis the good reader that makes the book.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1903-1882
a good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
?Martin Farquhar Tupper
Seek and ye shall find; find and ye shall want to seek a whole lot
more.
?unknown
Libraries are not made; they grow.
?Augustine Birrell, 1850-1933
I am a learner. I get a kick out of saying, ?I don?t know. Let?s find
out.?
?B. J. Utech
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them
you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
?Mortimer J. Adler
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the many
who can?t read them.
?Mark Twain
Reading is the work of the alert mind.
?E. B. White
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
It's no use going to school unless the library is your final
destination.
?Ray Bradbury
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From: Pat Hartzell <phartzel@smhs.sbceo.k12.ca.us>
If you can get a copy of the quotes around the Library of Congress
rotunda, they are timeless.
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From: Kay Ellis <tcb027@mail.connect.more.net>
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
can't read them." --Mark Twain
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From: Randall MacDonald <randall@sunline.tblc.lib.fl.us>
My favorite is
"Libraries Rule!"
- me, 1984
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From: JLundgard@aol.com
"Once you learn to read you will be forever free." Frederick Douglass
from a poster I have on my front door. Joan Lundgard
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From: Vickie Rabourn <vrabourn@telis.org>
"Improve the world by starting with yourself." I can't remember who said
this, but I'm sure it'd be easy to find. This quotation had stuck with me
since 1970 when our senior class chose it as our motto which we would use as
springboard for writing our senior class essays and speeches. I have
attempted to live by it ecer since. Wouldn't the world, indeed, be a better
place if we all improved ourselves?
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