Aging Quote by Gary Snyder

In Western Civilization, our elders are books.

— Gary Snyder

“And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we…

— Corrie ten Boom

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur…

— Louis L'Amour

“Old books are like Old friends”

— George R.R. Martin

“Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet.”

— Neil Gaiman

“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.”

— Samuel Butler

“sometimes, what i see is a library in a rural community. all the tall shelves in the big open room. and the pencils in…

— Tracy K. Smith

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I was raised to respect books - the house was full of them. From the time I was little, it was drummed into our…

— Martha Southgate

“What would we do without our elders? Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles? They're the libraries and archives of our lives and society. Librarians and archives,…

— Kyle Cassidy