About Quote by Russell Smith

“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

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had…

— Jonathan Kozol

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

— Spencer Wells

In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine of Aragon, and I could…

— Alison Weir

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

— Carl Jung

“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they…

— David Hume

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I wrote my first history book when I was four. I still have it so I can prove it.

— Bettany Hughes

My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own and would…

— Linda Sue Park