Quotes About Books

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

Membaca adalah tulang dan sumsum, limpa dan darah bagiku.

The two factors that will influence you the most in the years ahead are the books you read and the people you're around.

How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read . A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.

Most of these take a strong stand and present a case either for or against impact theory. In my opinion, the best of the pro-impact books is James Lawrence Powell's Night Comes to the Cretaceous (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998). The case against the impact theory is vigorously argued by Charles Officer and Jake Page in The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy (Reading, MA: Helix Books, 1996).

Both books are fun to read, and you learn a lot whichever view you adopt. J. David Archibald's Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

Look at the Sad Lonely People Who Didn't Join a Book Group,

When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings are capable of preserving the history of our knowledge in the form of books, there there may still be hope.

We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.

My kids say, "Dad, come on, you don't know what's going on. You don't know the music. You don't know this, you don't know that. Here are the books you should be doing. Here's the film you should be making." And when I get to the office and someone says, "Can I get you a coffee? Can I get you a water?

I began to think that Melvin's approach through books was one way to examine these questions. His life required a certain amount of detachment from the community, and that was attractive to me.

When I began to read, a whole new world opened to me. I became interested in books. I still could not read very well, but each new book made it easier. I did not mind spending many hours, because reading was enjoyment, rather than work. When I reached this point, I accumulated books and read one after another. I did this all through my senior year in high school and the summer following. By the time I really knew my way through a book, I had graduated from high school.

Then there are the books that shine in my memory, milestones along the horizontal course of my life. I remember not just the books themselves but the chair I sat in, the shoes I wore, the woman I loved, what song was on the charts at the time. None of which makes them good books, exactly, although all of them are — it just means that they are mine. They really happened.

I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

I am a very 'unvoracious' reader, and since I can seldom bring myself to read a work twice I think of the many things that I read – too soon! Nothing, not even a (possible) deeper appreciation, for me replaces the bloom on a book, the freshness of the unread. Still what we read and when goes, like the people we meet, by 'fate.' Letter 189 From a letter to Mrs M. Wilson

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Because every desire has its proper object...people spend their lives wanting things the shouldn't. The world confuses them into taking heir love and aiming it where it doesn't belong...All it takes to be happy is to love the right things, in the right amounts. Not money. Not books. People. Adults who don't understand that never feel fulfilled...

The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.

Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says. No, Olivia, just one." How about four?" Two." Three." Oh, all right, three. But that's it!

Reading never wears me out.

A Real Love of Books All of us have a unique story to tell. We all have valuable life experiences. We have treasured memories, the building blocks that give us substance, and make us alive. We have experienced change, the birth of a child, the death of a loved one or the founding of our own town. The rise and fall of our organizations and the development or destruction of our communities. What's your story? A Real Love of Books