Burning Quote by Amadou Hampate Ba Download Open image “In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.” — Amadou Hampate Ba ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burning Dies Library Men Old man
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are… — Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey Copy Share Image
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin Copy Share Image
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Writing is one thing and knowledge is another. Writing is the photographing of knowledge, but it is not knowledge itself. Knowledge is a light… — Amadou Hampate Ba Copy Share Image
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He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon it where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with… — Raphael Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
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