73 Book Quotes
Be motivated by these book quotes. These short book quotes show us the wisdom contained throughout their pages. Books can be used for educational purposes, for research, for relaxing the mind with stories of glee and happiness or to travel to a far off land without leaving home.For those who have been raised in an era before all technological devices that are now used to read, there was always the pleasant thought of curling up before a roaring fire on a winter's day with a cherished book. There seemed to be something magical about holding a book, smelling the ink emitted from its pages and turning each page as if one was traveling over the next hill to see what lay beyond.
Books are an opportunity to learn, an opportunity to enjoy, and an opportunity to challenge your mind, to motivate and to inspire you. You may also be encouraged by these poems about books.
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Oh, books of mine! .....Each treasured volume has a glory that seems a part of the divine,
Howard Carleton Tripp, My Books
Positive Poems -
Go to your friend for sympathy; that is natural. Go to your books for comfort, for counsel.
Angela Morgan
Friendship Poems -
A family is like a book and each chapter not to be overlooked
Catherine Pulsifer, A Family Is
Poems About Family -
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
Garden Poems -
How many books have we read searching for the truth? The Bible has all the answers we need - we just need to read and study it.
Catherine Pulsifer
Christian Poems -
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
Poems Of Encouragement -
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Poems About Reading -
Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to
magnify themselves, multiple the ways in which they exist,
to make their life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous Huxley
Poems about Life -
Life is too short to read a bad book.
James Joyce
Irish Blessing Quotes -
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.
Melody Beattie
New Years Wish -
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
N. T. Wright
Quotes About The Bible -
Oh, the many books I have read some quite good and others I dread. Short ones, long ones on many different topics, new ones, old ones, some are truly relics.
Catherine Pulsifer, Take A Look
Quotes about Reading -
Now close the book and lay it away - the Old Year's Book; we have read it through; leaf after leaf, and day after day we have turned the pages
Unknown, The Old Year's Book
New Year Poems -
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
Andrew Lang
Weekly Poems -
Reading a book can take us to a place - into the lives and what people face
Catherine Pulsifer, Reading A Book
Poems On Adventure -
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
Thomas Jefferson
Quotes about Library -
But this my song of thankfulness, and this my song of praise—
thank God for all the friendly books, for every magic phrase Wilhelmina Stitch, A Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Poems -
My house is full of well-loved books - they're scattered round the place - in unexpected corners - on the shelves and in the case.
Patience Strong
Bedside Books -
May some good book enrich the passing hours.
Joseph H. Crooker
Short Prayers -
The pages are blank, the sheets are white, it is up to me, what will happen
and what I'll write.
Catherine Pulsifer, My Book
Poems About New Year's Eve -
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost
Fire and Ice Poem -
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
Peter Davison
Poems About Poetry -
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway
Quotes For A Friend -
Books are like cheap mini vacations.
Michelle M. Pillow
Poems About Vacation -
Through page on page and find therein, to my profound surprise, full proof, through this great wonder Book, that God's all-seeing eyes
Strickland Gillilan
The Book For All Time -
The mustiness of an old book library is akin to the most aromatic dish I've tasted.
Freddy J. W. Parkes
Inspirational Poems -
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
Alex Haley
Poems About Parent -
Seek wisdom from great books and inspiration from good men
J. H. Tewksbury
Wisdom Poems -
And yes, there are lots of negative - negative people, negative tv, negative books - but you can be influenced by the positive by the books you read, the tv you watch, and the people you spend your time with.
Catherine Pulsifer
Positive Influence -
Old friends, old books are surely best, already long they've stood each test
Charles R. Williams, Old Friends, Old Books
New Friends and Old Friends -
How many books are around this day that we were written more than 1500 years ago
Catherine Pulsifer, See You In Heaven?
Poems About The Bible -
For books by poet, seer and sage; for easy chairs and middle-age...I give Thee thanks!
May Carlexon Lord, I Give Thee Thanks!
Thanksgiving Prayers -
Ah, yes, the chapter ends to–day; we even lay the book away; but oh, how sweet the moments sped
Paul Laurence Dunbar,
The End of The Chapter
Poems About Time -
While I've never actually experienced the thrills of walking through an English castle of old but yet I've caressed each damp wall,
cast my eyes beyond every fortified turret, and walked boldly past massive wooden gates through the pages of a book.
Byron R. Pulsifer
Inspirational Quotes -
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Famous Poets -
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
Eugene Field
Famous Poems -
Have you read the Scriptures? Have you had a real good look?
If you seek for confirmation, you will find it in God's Book. Greta Zwaan, The Things God Has Done
Poems About God -
For every book you read, a new adventure adds to your spirit of knowledge.
Rosy Lee Anderson
Adventure Quotes -
Let us learn to be content with what we have....A few books full of the inspiration of a genius
David Swing, Contentment
Poems About Joy -
You may not alone have the inner strength to smash your way through adversity but internalizing the stories told through books
of those who did lend ammunition to carry on.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth
Adversity Quotes -
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius
High School Graduation -
I have had many companions that change over time but never the thoughts contained within the pages of cherished books.
Kate Summers
Positive Quotes About Change -
Take the Bible - read the Bible - 'Tis a precious, precious book
Daniel C. Colesworthy
Read The Bible -
A library of ancient and old texts hold the combined recipes for all those similar events that will be seen today and tomorrow.
Robert Rivers
Thought Provoking Quotes -
Life is like a book, each chapter has its ups and downs, but what is important is that you keep going you fulfill your purpose.
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems -
I love my books, I love to read the things they're all about
Lucy P. Scott, The Seasons
Poems About The Seasons -
Never judge a book by its movie.
J. W. Eagan
Cute Quotes -
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom
Time Quotes -
If I could I'd avoid the cold, and sit in my cozy home. I'd put on a fire and sit with a book, and hope for winter to roam.
Julie Hebert, Winter Madness
Winter Poems -
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks
Life Quotes -
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Charles De Secondat
Trouble Quotes -
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
Marie de Sevigne
Motivational Quotes -
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Christopher Morley
Short Love Quotes -
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
N. T. Wright
My Mother's Bible -
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end
of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
Knowledge Quotes -
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
Lifestyle Quotes -
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away, nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.
Emily Dickinson, A Book
Quotes About Poetry -
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns
on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Quotes To Live By -
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
Health Quotes -
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero;
but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
Truth Quotes -
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal
faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid
to go in your library and read every book.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Defeat Quotes -
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
Action Quotes -
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis
Sustainability Quotes -
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop
thinking about things that I stress about.
Britney Spears
Stress Quotes -
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
Fitness 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.
Oprah Winfrey
Solutions Quotes -
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants
to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
G. K. Chesterton
Adaptation Quotes -
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever
invented is the book.
Northrup Frye
Innovation Quotes -
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie
Independence Quotes -
Of all the books in the world, the Bible is the best seller year after year. You can read it and reread it and every time you will find something new.
Catherine Pulsifer
The Bible -
When it's winter, I shall look a my memory picture book.
Wilhelmina Stitch
Later On -
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people
are still thinking.
Jerry Seinfield
Thoughtful Quotes -
Say the books, "Home is here. We dispel despair and fear.'"
Wilhelmina Stitch
Home Is Here
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