How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. I believe what the old Quaker said,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Destarte! How musical! What does it mean?” “You can’t say it except in Mescalero. It means Morning, but that isn’t what it means, either.… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day’s… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them? — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
“Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share
