Books Quote by Mary McLeod Bethune Download Open image “The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.” — Mary McLeod Bethune ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Whole Whole world World
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Learning to read gave us a true oasis, salvation, in the same way that coming to know Jesus or the Buddha might eventually get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done,… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you? — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
