Tuesday, April 8, 2025

General Reference Books in your Palm

General Reference Books in your Palm
75 More Books at the Living with Nature Center
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
Dr Abe V Rotor

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller


Think before you speak. Read before you think. – Fran Lebowitz

"Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." – Lena Dunham


"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book." – J.K. Rowling

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." – Ralph Waldo Emerson


"A word after a word after a word is power." – Margaret Atwood

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." – Carl Sagan


"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors." – Charles Baudelaire


"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift." – Kate DiCamillo

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them." – Emma Thompson


"Books are a uniquely portable magic." – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you." – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind


"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." – Frederick Douglass

A room without books is like a body without a soul. – Cicero


"Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world." – Jeanette Winterson

"Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading." – Susan Sontag


We read to know we are not alone. – C.S. Lewis


"I love the way that each book — any book — is its own journey. You open it, and off you go…" – Sharon Creech

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." – William Styron ~

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