Category: Quotes

  • And we knew that in all languages, there are words as warm as breath and others as cold as metal.

    The Day Saida Arrived by Susana Gómez Redondo
  • A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

    —Chinese Proverb
  • Hope and peace and love and trust

    All the world is all of us.

    —All The World by Liz Garton Scanlon
  • …if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

    —The Twits by Roald Dahl
  • “But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”

    —Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
  • Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

    —Charles William Eliot
  • “A story is about the reader, not the writer.”

    —Richard Peck
  • “‘What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh.
    ‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet.
    ‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.”

    —The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
  • “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.”

    — Langston Hughes
  • “Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.”

    – Malala Yousafzai