Political Quotes

“the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. The Kellogg-Hubbard Library holds a very special place in my heart, because I had my first library card there. I used to go almost every day. I would be reading a book at school or a book at home and sometimes a book in the library in the evening. Mrs. Jean Holbrook, who was the librarian, was one of those people who truly helped form my life and my educational accomplishments as a child. It was she who told me when I got bored with the curriculum in the third grade that I could also be spending my time reading Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and I did with great enjoyment. It was she who told me that when I read just about everything in the children's library, that she would go with me to get a card in the upstairs library, the grownups' library. I guess I was probably the youngest grownup at the time, but this helped me, and it has helped me immeasurably throughout my life. Even today, when I give graduation addresses in high schools and even sometimes grade schools in Vermont, I tell the graduates they have already learned the most important thing in their life--they have learned to read.”