Biography Quote by Laura Bush Download Open image ““I turned to books for comfort.”” — Laura Bush ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biography Book Books Political Politically correct Telling
“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and… — Saffron Mello Castro Copy Share Image
“And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!” — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“I was not gentle on my books. I read while I ate, I read in the bathtub. At night, I rolled over on top… — Georgia Bell Copy Share Image
“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“To simply hold a book, to imagine what it might say, would be a comfort.” — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect it. A… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
“I read a lot...I love books. I work with books. Books are my life.” — The Distant Hours Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going to enjoy… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading.” — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I've always liked walking; that's one of my favorite things to do, and I try to walk every day. [In Washington, D.C.] I can't… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Educated people can make their own choices about their governments. And certainly for women, an education allows you to understand your rights. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms,… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Time spent in nature decreases stress and anxiety and improves focus for adults as well as children. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Don't start smoking. It's much harder to stop than it is not to start at all. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express… — Joel Spector Larry Geller Patricia Romanowski Copy Share Image
“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard;… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home” — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
