Umberto Eco Quotes

I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure his message lives on forever. I feel like that's why I've been put on this planet - to get my message across.

Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.

My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters called 'Things Boys can Do.' My brothers and I would pick out interesting projects.

My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

I subscribe to 'National Geographic,' 'Scientific American,' 'Discover,' and a slew of other magazines. And it is while reading articles for pleasure and interest that an interesting 'What if?' will pop into my head.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I was just so intrigued with good stories from the time I was a little girl. When my parents would take us out to dinner, I would bring a book along. And they were perfectly happy with that.

As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.

My grandfather has a big influence on me; without him, I wouldn't be where I am now.

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.