January 2002 Issue
Quotes
From the walls of the Public Library of Charlotte &
Mecklenburg County
:
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."
- Henry David Thoreau
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"Reading books removes sorrows from the heart."
-
Moroccan
proverb
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"Library: here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices and raises their minds."
- Richard Armour
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"A public library is the most enduring of
memorials, the trustiest monument for the presentation of an event or a name or
an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and
survives them."
- Mark Twain
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on
Treasure Island."
- Walt Disney
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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge
from almost all the miseries of life."
- W. Somerset Maugham
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"I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me.
As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to
be mentally alive."
- Malcolm X
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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize
the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."
- Pablo
Picasso
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"You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading
this sort of stuff."
- Jim Critchfield
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"The unread story is not a story, it is a little
black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a
story."
- Ursula LeGuin
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