Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

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.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.

My passion for books has changed my life.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

A good book is a good book. End of story.

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

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.