Rebecca Hall Quotes

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that is your neighbor's.

I grew up in a house full of books.

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

I collect books - a lot of books.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

Books do furnish a room.

Your library is your portrait.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

I am a bookworm.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

I'm a bookworm.

When I was a boy, all the books I owned fit on a single shelf. Now I have several thousand stacked around the house.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.