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Libraries are where it all begins.
Rita Dove
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Rita Dove
American
Poet
Born:
Aug 28
,
1952
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,
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush
Library
Learning
Wonderful
World
Doors
Once
Libraries
Find
About
Allow
Open
Learns
Always
Answers
Questions
Child
Wonderful Thing
The Doors
Children
Ask
Use
Thing
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
Wisdom
Knowledge
Library
World
Lost
Believe
I Believe
I Believe That
Sums
Libraries
Scant
Vast
Throughout
Attention
Dies
Burned
Elder
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury
Future
Past
Libraries
No Future
Without
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
Margaret Atwood
You
Generation
World
Practice
Luxuries
Our
Books
Our Generation
Paper
Libraries
Had
Schools
Venues
Without
How
West
Lack
Teachers
Many
Lucky
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
Alexis Carrel
Reality
Dangerous
Fog
Long
Too
Those
Libraries
Atmosphere
Like
Lecture
Up
Them
Rooms
Themselves
Us
Separates
Who
Shut
Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.
Amitava Kumar
History
Culture
Cinema
Nation
Books
Monuments
Libraries
Smaller
Houses
Erect
History Books
Squares
Survives
Spaces
Grand
Village
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus
Me
Made
Libraries
Poets
Am
Greek
Little
Professor
Assistance
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Wisdom
Learning
Sleeps
Everywhere
Libraries
Tiptoe
Awake
Wide
Wide Awake
Libraries can take the place of God.
Umberto Eco
God
Libraries
Take
Place
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable.
Alan Bennett
Will
Local
Libraries
Solutions
Find
See
Make
Close
Want
Sustainable
Them
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