Classroom Libraries Quotes & Sayings

The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more
if only they were willing to take a few risks. — George Foreman

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington

blood runs thicker than water. — Bella Forrest

I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. — George Savile

She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not every border was clear. — Lisa Scottoline

The clash between the individual gospel and the social gospel leaves me cold. An individual gospel is a soul without a body, and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost and the other is a corpse. Put the two together and you have a living person.66 — Jayakumar Christian

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. — Teju Cole

Madness, and then illumination. — Orson Scott Card

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress. — Willard Scott