Books Quote by A.C. Grayling Download Open image ““How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU”” — A.C. Grayling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Life Reading
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Whenever I read anything by Henry David Thoreau I honestly feel as though he’s with me. No. More like I am with him.” — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
“My life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without an end.… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“Henry David Thoreau is my favorite writer of all time, my literary god king, and his essay Wild Apples is my favorite thing to… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. HENRY DAVID THOREAU” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“I to je zapravo sustina proslavljanja Dana sv. Valentina:san o ljubavi. Zivot bi zaista bio gorak kada se san nikada ne bi ostvario ili… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Goethe had long since remarked that nationalistic feelings ‘are at their strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture’.” — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party.… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“The notion that evil is non-rational is a more significant claim for Eagleton than at first appears, because he is (in this book [… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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