Top 1200 School Library Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

We are all carriers of our own stories. We have never trusted our own voices. Reforms came, but we don't make them. They were presented by people removed from schools, by 'experts'. Such changes bi passes school. School by school changes, however slow, could make a powerful difference.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

I always said it was my ambition to have a library - I have one - and my dream was to have a pool. Then 'Strictly' came along.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.

School's not for everyone, but I'm not telling people to leave school.

For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.