"Every death is like the burning of a…" — Alex Haley
"Every death is like the burning of a library."
—
Alex Haley
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
38 Quotes by Alex Haley
Alex Haley has 38 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
-
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal…
-
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
-
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
-
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
-
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than…
-
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the…
-
You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in…
-
I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams…
-
Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also…
-
I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to…
-
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia,…
See all 38 quotes by Alex Haley »
More Burning Quotes
This quote is filed under Burning Quotes,
one of 1,238 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
— David Attenborough
-
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
— Ansel Adams
-
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love…
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
-
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
— Aneurin Bevan
-
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.…
— Michael Bloomberg
-
I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it…
— Emily Blunt
-
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
— Elizabeth Bowen
-
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody…
— Geraldine Brooks
-
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes…
— William S. Burroughs
-
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up…
— George H. W. Bush
-
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
— Abraham Cahan
See all 1,238 Burning Quotes »