Book Quotes

14007 Book quotes by 5720 unique authors

The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection... — Carl Jung
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. — Theodore Bikel
I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere. — Clifford Geertz
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus
I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to… — Tayeb Salih
Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted… — John Bagot Glubb
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam. — Alan Blinder
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books… — William Lacy Clay, Jr.
We all can dance when we find music that we love. — Giles Andreae
The more he gave away, the more delighted he became. — Marcus Pfister
The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the water around him… — Marcus Pfister
One day I gave Clifford a bath. And I combed his hair and took hom to the dog show. I'd like to say Clifford won… — Unknown Author
With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing. — Keisha Buchanan
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits. — Unknown Author
Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser
One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. — Rene Burri
At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel… — Ernest Thompson Seton
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah,… — Frank Oz
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a… — Fritz Zwicky
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of… — James Dwight Dana
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures… — Jesse L. Greenstein
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology — Barack Obama
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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