Famous quotes containing the words books and/or threshold:
“I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I had a good talk with Alcott this afternoon. He is certainly the youngest man of his age we have seen,—just on the threshold of life. When I looked at his gray hairs, his conversation sounded pathetic; but I looked again, and they reminded me of the gray dawn.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)