All of us and perhaps all of you read in childhood, while…

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the…

— J. G. Ballard

Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't…

— Cressida Cowell

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood -…

— Jefferson Mays

“Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in…

— John Kendrick Bangs

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

— Patti Smith

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or…

— Hermann Hesse

I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. You just don't call your kid…

— Dido Armstrong

“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we…

— Hector Avalos

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe…

— Dennis McKinsey

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original.…

— Daniel B. Wallace

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in…

— Samuel Johnson

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite…

— Matthew Arnold

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind…

— Sam Harris

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

— F. F. Bruce

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets.…

— Elie Wiesel