* * * * * * * *
"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."
- Carl Sagan
* * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * *
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
― Dr. Seuss
* * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * *
"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead."
- Clarence Shepard Day
* * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * *
"If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all."
- François Fénelon
* * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * *
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
grt
ReplyDelete