Book Quote by Thomas Hood Download Open image “My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.” — Thomas Hood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Books Kept Dog Kept Ring Pit Tavern Pits Rings Saloon Saloons Tavern Saloon Taverns
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit in my… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts,… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Peace and rest at length have come, All the day's long toil is past; And each heart is whispering, "Home, Home at last!" — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say, It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging zephyr springs,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed! — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die? — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence. — Thomas Hood 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
