Aging Quote by Amadou Hampâté Bâ Download Open image ““Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down.”” — Amadou Hampâté Bâ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Library
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
“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.” — Simone Schwarz-Bart Copy Share Image
I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground. — Jandy Nelson 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
“When I die, I guess I'll go with a library card in one hand and an OVERDUE stamp in the other.” — Mike Hanlon Stephen King Copy Share Image
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
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
