Book Quote by Horace Mann

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field.

— Horace Mann

“Would that I could gather your houses into my hand, and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow.”

— Khalil Gibran

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I left the army and took up farming, the wheat crop would be over your head and yet we wouldn't have enough.

— Amarinder Singh

The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself,…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Sure, we thought the acres That we tilled were sacred, But how could we have known That wheat can haunt like ghosts”

— Sherman Alexie

“But the Library still held everything he’d ever wanted, too. All the knowledge in the world, right at his fingertips”

— Rachel Caine

“That is how a farmer walks across the soil in spring--and later, in summer, the traces of his steps are obscured by the billowing…

— Joseph Roth

Without the library, I would have been lost.

— Jesmyn Ward

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

— J. Patrick Lewis

“You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me, wheat is of no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry