Book Quote by Spyridon Marinatos

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

— Anais Nin

“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent.…

— Paul Collins

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

— Carl Sagan

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

— Charles Thomas Newton

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

— Zbigniew Herbert

Language is the archives of history.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We, including many Christians, read the Bible through "eyes" conditioned by, and even accommodated to, modern Western culture plus the influences of messages and…

— Roger E. Olson

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,…

— Neil Gaiman

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

— John Green

It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the…

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton