“ The New ContinentA Norwegian coin of the Viking era was once found in Maine; however, no indication of a settlement was found that could be used to verify the exact location of any landings. Perhaps i… Hank Bracker
“ Che” Guevara with about two thousand guerrilla fighters entered Havana on January 2, 1959. Their entry was relatively quiet as they headed for the Malecon and the old Spanish fortress, overlooking the… Hank Bracker
“ Nearly all our associations are determined by chance or necessity; and restricted within a narrow circle. We cannot know whom we would; and those whom we know, we cannot have at our side when we most… John Ruskin
“ In a way, the books were protection. An escape she would always have access to.A sanctuary, there for when she needed it. C.M. Spivey
“ As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are… Oscar Wilde
“ Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans. Dan Groat
“ Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages… Dan Groat
“ Amedeo loved thick tomes, and in tackling them he felt the physical pleasure of undertaking a great task. Weighing them in his hand, thick, closely printed, squat, he would consider with some apprehen… Italo Calvino
“ Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them. Natalie Lloyd
“ There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. James Weldon Johnson
“ And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!) Carl Sagan
“ We sat in his library. amidst his beloved books, whose company I knew he would rather seek than that of most of his acquaintances, did they but know it. Linda Buckley-Archer
“ Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot… John Erskine
“ The sessions with Mr. Dubois continued, but it was in the private parlor of Abigail Braddock that Sarah Biddle received the greatest knowledge, for in Mrs. Braddock's private parlor Sarah Biddle learn… Stephanie Grace Whitson
