Anya Seton Quotes

One should never underestimate the power of books.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Man is what he reads.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

A library implies an act of faith.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Libraries raised me.