Books Quotes

7412 Books quotes by 3493 unique authors

Books are often far more than just books. — Roxane Gay
If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away… — Roy Sesana
For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not… — Ben Ehrenreich
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you… — Austin Kleon
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can… — Austin Kleon
Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this… — Leigh Michaels
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own… — Helen Simonson
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly… — Richard Baxter
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. — Karin Slaughter
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind — Joseph Addison
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm… — Robert Ballard
Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of… — Unknown Author
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond… — Charles Bolden
All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else… — Unknown Author
I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of… — Henry Walter Bates
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing. — Hank Green
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development… — Barbara Tuchman
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. — Evgeny Morozov
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do. — Stedman Graham
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else... books. — Nancy Horan
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to… — Len Wein
Who can say how many lives have been saved by books? — Unknown Author
Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more… — Raekwon

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