Hermann Hesse Quotes

Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen. With wonder, she smiled. That such a room existed!

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

I was never without a book in my hand.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.