Tammy's favorite quotes

"Books are not made for furniture,
but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
— Henry Ward Beecher

tags: reading

69 people liked it

"I read the newspaper avidly.
It is my one form of continuous fiction."
— Aneurin Bevan

3 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

1,348 people liked it

"The closest we will ever come to an
orderly universe is a good library."
— Ashleigh Brilliant

7 people liked it

"The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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— Samuel Butler

4 people liked it

"There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
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— Mary Ellen Chase

2 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul

11,392 people liked it

"It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down. "
— Agatha Christie

16 people liked it

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
— Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, reading

115 people liked it

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."
— Walt Disney Company

tags: books

510 people liked it

"I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
— T.S. Eliot

tags: reading, winter

13 people liked it

"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, library

23 people liked it

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: creativity, reading, writing

30 people liked it

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

1,374 people liked it

"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe,
were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading,
I would spurn them all."
— Francois Fenelon

1 person liked it

"When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day."
— Jean Fritz

32 people liked it

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
— Heinrich Heine

tags: books, censorship

91 people liked it

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: authors

212 people liked it

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education."
— Harold Howe

tags: education, libraries, library, school

35 people liked it

"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
— Japanese proverb

tags: reading

58 people liked it

"A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital."
— Thomas Jefferson

15 people liked it

"I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths."
— John Keats

tags: reading, shakespeare

17 people liked it

"There should be a little voice in your head like the storyteller
is saying it. And if there's not, then you're just lookin' at the words.
~ LaKeisha ~
(9th Grader in San Francisco)
In an article about reading for understanding in WestEd's R&D Alert Newsletter, Summer 1999."
— LaKeisha

3 people liked it

"I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes."
— Charles Lamb

2 people liked it

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)

tags: reading

576 people liked it

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
— Arnold Lobel

tags: books, reading

383 people liked it

"I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors.
There is so much aspiration in them,
so much audacious hope and trembling fear,
so much of the heart's history, that all errors
and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of
in the amiable self assertion of youth."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4 people liked it

"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
— Katherine Mansfield

69 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

2,919 people liked it

"Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books -- they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future and a past."
— Esther Meynell

2 people liked it

"Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one
which gave it birth a book is dead to us.
Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs."
— Henry Miller

7 people liked it

"Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence."
— Jan Morris

3 people liked it

"It is not enough to simply teach children to read;
we have to give them something worth reading.
Something that will stretch their imaginations-
something that will help them make sense of their own lives
and encourage them to reach out toward people
whose lives are quite different from their own."
— Katherine Paterson

24 people liked it

"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
— Anna Quindlen

tags: books, children

230 people liked it

"Everything you need for better future and success
has already been written. And guess what?
All you have to do is go to the library."
— Jim Rohn

6 people liked it

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: writing

197 people liked it

"Books....are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em,
then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind,
as evidence of our earlier stages of development. (1928)"
— Dorothy L. Sayers

1 person liked it

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: learning, reading, seuss

2,134 people liked it

"We shouldn't teach great books;
we should teach a love of reading."
— B.F. Skinner

12 people liked it

"What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting
you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so?
The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books."
— Andre Sinyavsky

1 person liked it

"My home is where my books are."
— Ellen Thompson

10 people liked it

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: books

153 people liked it

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
— Henry David Thoreau

29 people liked it

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that
while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed,
has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too,
and like a river moved on and moved away.
No one has stepped twice into the same river.
But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"
— Marina Tsvetaeva

8 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy

6,235 people liked it

"Books had instant replay long before televised sports."
— Bert Williams

1 person liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

7,785 people liked it

"Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game."
— Gary Gygax

tags: games, gaming, sportsmanship

7 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious

5,557 people liked it

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

3,238 people liked it

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