From the Library
Last Friday the 14th of February wasn’t just Valentine’s Day it was also Library Lovers’ Day
This is the day each year that we honour libraries, librarians, book lovers, and lovers of libraries. On Library Lovers’ Day, we celebrate the enduring relationship between our community and the libraries.
It also serves as an opportunity to celebrate those who love and support libraries and to remind decision makers how loved and cherished libraries are by the entire community.
Famous Quotes About Reading
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin (American novelist and short-story writer, screenwriter, and television producer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones)
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis (British writer and lay theologian)
“Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
Mark Twain (American writer, humourist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.)
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr. Seuss (American children’s author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker)
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
Stephen King (American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels)
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
Benjamin Franklin (Founding Fathers of the United States. A polymath, he was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humourist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat)
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
Walt Disney ( American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor and film producer.)
“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow mouldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
Jules Verne (French novelist, poet, and playwright)
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
Napoléon Bonaparte (French military and political leader)
“I guess there are never enough books.”
John Steinbeck (American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner)
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.”
Emily Dickinson (American poet)
