Books Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands.…

— Anonymous

“One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia,…

— Carl Sagan

“But it's one thing to feel that a book can speak beyond its particular time and place to something universal, and another to ignore…

— Will Schwalbe

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

— René Descartes

“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.”

— Anonymous

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.”

— Danielle S. Allen

“I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.”

— J.C. Ryle

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

— Ellen Glasgow

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell…

— Connie Willis

“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study will be…

— Boris Gunjević