Book Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“And I remembered The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon, which I had read in its entirety the night before. The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Eperience of the Past Million Years?' nothing.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?”

— Graham Greene

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean sea breeze…

— Alister E. McGrath

“Still men be clever and in an hundred centuries or more, perchance will have found a way to journey thither; when that they have…

— Chico Kidd

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader,…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“I do not mean to exclude books of history, poetry, or even fables from our schools. They may and should be read frequently by…

— Benjamin Rush

All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who…

— Max Muller

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow…

— Clarence Day