Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

— David Levithan

They defy gravity, as good books should.

— David Levithan

Books have their destinies.

— Horace

“Electronic books lack gravity.”

— James Dempsey

When the library book-drop overflows and volumes spill onto the wet grass, the books are over dew.

— Green Monk

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

— Carl Sagan

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I love massive books: books so big, like bricks, you could drown yourself in a pool with them if you're not careful.

— Mark Manson

These are heavy books.

— John Proctor

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force ”

— John Cale

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

— Cornelia Funke