Top 1200 Banned Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don’t believe there are children who hate books. There are just children who haven’t yet found the right books for them.

I didn’t play video games because my parents didn’t allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.

Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because the books have this wonder in everyday things that isn't bogged down by excessively grown-up concerns or the need to be subtle or coy... when you read these books as an adult, it tends to bring back the sense of newness and discovery that I tend not to get from adult fiction.

Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of Mary, prayer books, Scriptural resource books on Apologetics, Typology, concordances, bible dictionaries, bible encyclopedias and at least 40 bibles - both Catholic and Protestant editions in several different translations.

I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like?"Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.

Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books in which Christ and the Holy Ghost have their rightful office-- books in which justification, and sanctification, and regeneration, and faith, and grace, and holiness are clearly, distinctly, and accurately delineated and exhibited, these are the only books which do real good. Few things need reviving more than a taste for such books as these among readers.

There are a lot of people out there who will write books, in which everything turns out nicely and the bad guys lose, the good guys win, the boy gets the girl and they live happily ever after. There's a million books like that and if that's the comfort you're looking for, you should read those books and not my books because that's not the kind of book that I am interested in.

On Saturday morning, I like to get up early and go out - TV is banned!

There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements for any books looking raggedy on your shelves.

I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of referring to something, they refer to nothing.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is looking. Real books help you make sense of your crazy life. Real books tell it true, don't hold back and make you stronger. But most of all, real books give you hope. Because it's not always going to be like this and books-the good ones, the ones-show you how to make it better. Now.

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are collectible will continue to be collected; people with lots of bookshelves will keep stocking them; and anyone who likes to make notes in books will keep buying books with margins to fill.

BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

I love picture books. I think some of the best people in children's books are the ones who create their own picture books. I wish I could say I'm one of them, but I'm not.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

The full veil is not appropriate for Germans, and should be banned wherever legally possible.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.

I wasn't a very outgoing child. I read a lot of books and the characters in each of the books became like imaginary friends - I immersed myself in the different worlds. I always hated finishing books that I really loved for that reason.

I will be the happiest if TikTok is banned. They mock someone like me most on that platform.

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with humility and gall. And you have to love to read books, all kinds of books, good books. You are not looking for anything in particular; you are just letting stuff seep in.

We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)

Nonsmokers should be banned from buying any product a smoker created.

I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.

I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

I have never served on a jury because MPs were exempted - or banned, I think.

You can't interview Pete Rose and not ask about betting on the Reds and being banned from baseball.

As one of its first acts after coming into existence, the EPA banned the vital pesticide DDT.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind.

I've played a few times in stadiums where the fans have been banned, and it's just not the same.

If something or someone is being banned, I want to be among the first to know about it.

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after reading the Mary Russell books. That's great. That's more or less how I rediscovered the Holmes books.

I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.

Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings.

I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.