A Quote by Amadou Hampate Ba

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

Amadou Hampate Ba

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Amadou Hampate Ba
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1901 - May 15, 1991

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Chinua Achebe

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jandy Nelson

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

Stephen King

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Amadou Hampate Ba

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Alex Haley

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Jandy Nelson

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

Simone de Beauvoir

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

Daniel Handler

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

Ray Bradbury

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

Mark Plotkin

Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.

Rajneesh

I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Colin Mochrie

The old men know when an old man dies.

Ogden Nash

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

Jean Giraudoux

All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking about love, all her private intricate thoughts, her inconsequential secret musings – they’re gone too. I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I’m watching it burn right to the ground.

Jandy Nelson

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Miguel de Unamuno

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