than in all the pirate's loot on
Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
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the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
When I get a little money I buy books;
and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds
of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter
in paper and leathern boxes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always imagined that Paradise
will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
"Everything in the world exists
in order to end up as a book."
Stephan Mallarme
I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson
Books may well be
the only true magic.
- Alice Hoffman
I find television very educational.
Every time someone turns it on,
I go in the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.
The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life,
it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself,
is a joy forever.
The Anatomy of Bibliomana Vol.II
- Holbrook Jackson
Good children's literature appeals
not only to the child in the adult,
but to the adult in the child.
~ Anonymous ~
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
There is no substitute for books
in the life of a child. (1952)
~ Mary Ellen Chase ~
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
~ Marcus T. Cicero ~
I often feel sorry for people
who don't read good books.
they are missing a chance
to lead an extra life.
Scott Corbett ~
It was clear
that the books owned the shop
rather than the other way about.
Everywhere they had run wild
and taken possession oftheir habitat,
breeding and multiplying
and clearly lacking any strong hand
to keep them down. (1963)
~ Agatha Christie ~
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 ~
It is a great thing to start life
with a small number
of really good books
which are your very own.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Never judge a book by its movie.
~ J. W. Eagan ~
I suggest that the only books that influence us
are those for which we are ready,
and which have gone a little farther
down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
~ E. M. Forster ~
The person who deserves most pity
is a lonesome one on a rainy day
who doesn't know how to read.
Benjamin Franklin
MY BOOK!
I did it!
I did it!
Come and look
At what I've done!
I read a book!
When someone wrote it
Long ago
For me to read,
How did he know
That this was the book
I'd take from the shelf
And lie on the floor
And read by myself?
I really read it!
Just like that!
Word by word,
From first to last!
I'm sleeping with
This book in bed,
This first FIRST book
I've ever read!
~ David L. Harrison ~
(from Somebody Catch My Homework)
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky.
My pile of books
Are 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 ~
Outside a dog,
a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog,
it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
Books, to the reading child,
are so much more than books --
they are dreams and knowledge,
they are a future, and a past. (1940)
~ Esther Meynell ~
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 *
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
~ Austin Phelps ~
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. (1993)
~ Anna Quindlen ~
Very young children
eat their books,
literally devouring their contents.
This is one reason
for the scarcity of first editions
of Alice in Wonderland
and other favorites of the nursery.
~ A. S. W. Rosenbach ~
What I like best
is a book that's at least funny once in a while...
What really knocks me out
is a book that, when you're all done reading it,
you wish the author that wrote it
was a terrific friend of yours
and you could call him up on the phone
whenever you felt like it.
That doesn't happen much, though.
~ J. D. Salinger ~
The humble little school library ...
was a ramp to everything in the world and beyond,
everything that could be dreamed and imagined,
everything that could be known,
everything that could be hoped.
~ Lee Sherman ~
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark?
Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
~ Fred Stoller ~
My home is where my books are. (1909)
~ Ellen Thompson ~
Books are
the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance
of generations and nations.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
