Books Quote by Alister E. McGrath

“And now the page before us blurs. An age is done. The book must close. We are abandoned to history. Raise high one more…

— Steven Erikson

“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send them out…

— Julian Darius

“god be thanked for books. they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of…

— William Ellery Channing

“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as I delicately…

— Liz Newman

“And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we…

— Corrie ten Boom

“...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion.…

— Alberto Manguel

“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young men prostrate…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have been loosed.”

— Mahbud

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau

“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.”

— René Descartes