Books Quotes
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Some women have a weakness for shoes...I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their books, who are brave and resourceful people embarking on exciting adventures, definitely shaped my inner self and nourished my love for the outdoors.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens - of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions - must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.
Among democracies, I think through all the recorded history of the world, the building of permanent institutions like libraries and museums for the use of all the people flourishes.
To bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a Nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.
It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.
People die, but books never die.
Books can not be killed by fire... No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.
When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.
Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.
Popular Topics
Popular Authors
