Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to… — Benjamin Rush
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… — Gore Vidal
In doing your best serving others for free, a lot of eyebrows will raise and sneers will curve many a - faces. But in the… — Mother Teresa
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire… — John Keats
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book… — William Butler Yeats
New Rule: If an Evangelical tries to use Halloween to pimp Jesus to kids, they get to egg his house. On Halloween, the president of… — Bill Maher
Within the book and volume of thy brain... — William Shakespeare
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating… — Paulo Coelho
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'. — Daniel Handler
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. — Rose Macaulay
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.… — Maurice Sendak
Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every… — George Johnson
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. — Neil Gaiman
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. — Roald Dahl
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein
You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll… — James M. Barrie
As the Little House settled down on her new foundation, she smiled happily. Once again she could watch the sun and moon and stars. Once… — Virginia Lee Burton
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a… — Arnold Lobel
'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,' said the tree,… — Shel Silverstein
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
Books succeed; and lives fail. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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