Famous quotes containing the word books:
“The books may say that nine-month-olds crawl, say their first words, and are afraid of strangers. Your exuberantly concrete and special nine-month-old hasnt read them. She may be walking already, not saying a word and smiling gleefully at every stranger she sees. . . . You can support her best by helping her learn what shes trying to learn, not what the books say a typical child ought to be learning.”
—Amy Laura Dombro (20th century)
“The life of reasonMa phrase once used by people who thought that reading books would deliver them from their passions.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“New eyes each year
Find old books here,
And new books, too,
Old eyes renew....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
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