Quotes About Learning

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

It is education which can liberate you and I believe girls should get the best education.

I was a librarian.

I wanted to be a librarian.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

I love libraries, as anyone who has a brain does.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

Without the library, I would have been lost.

We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is obsessed with reading and books, so it's really sweet. She has her own little personal library.

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the library and you had 'World Book Encyclopedias.'

When I read books, my life changes.

I've learnt from my life experience.

From every life experience, fighting experience, I took the right lessons.

Everything our mom taught us was from her life experience.

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.