Quotes - Jennie Smith (Belton, SC) Showing 1-30 of 64

#1

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

tags: silence, voice

2533 likes

#2

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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#3

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world

5510 likes

#4

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

12559 likes

#5

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16493 likes

#6

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

13378 likes

#7

“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

13686 likes

#8

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books, literature, philosphy, poetry, reading

15845 likes

#9

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

2402 likes

#10

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

tags: books, light, reading

1441 likes

#11

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, reading, we-are-what-we-eat, we-are-what-we-read, you-are-what-you-eat, you-are-what-you-read

6066 likes

#12

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

3617 likes

#13

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: reading

1091 likes

#14

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

tags: diversity, horror, reading

1184 likes

#15

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: reading

662 likes

#16

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: books, literature, living, reading, words

488 likes

#17

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

458 likes

#18

“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”
― Sherman Alexie

tags: reading, survival

192 likes

#19

“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
― Emma Thompson

tags: books, reading

164 likes

#20

“Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.”
― Lisa McMann, Wake

tags: reading

115 likes

#21

“Only the nonreader fears books. ”
― Richard Peck

tags: books, censorship, reading

123 likes

#22

“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”
― Frank Serafini

tags: inspirational, literacy, reading

216 likes

#23

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: books, reading

136 likes

#24

“Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

tags: books, censoring, reading

93 likes

#25

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

119 likes

#26

“Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.”
― Jackson Pearce

tags: books, inspirational, reading, teens

97 likes

#27

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

497 likes

#28

“More Weight
-Giles Corey-”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

114 likes

#29

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25519 likes

#30

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

23674 likes

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