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World Book Day Quotes
World Book Day Quotes For Students: World Book and Copyright Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books – a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. On this occasion, UNESCO and the international organizations representing the three major sectors of the book industry – publishers, booksellers and libraries, select the World Book Capital for a year to maintain, through its own initiatives, the impetus of the Day’s celebrations.
23 April is a symbolic date in world literature. It is the date on which several prominent authors, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. This date was a natural choice for UNESCO’s General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone to access books.
- Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. ~ Anna Quindlen
- Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. ~ Charles William Eliot
- Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~ Bern Williams
- Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. ~ William Hazlitt
- Books were my pass to personal freedom. ~ Oprah Winfrey
- Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. ~ Emilie Buchwald
- Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ W. B. Yeats
- Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ~ Jessamyn West
- Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. ~ Augustine Birrell
- Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~ Mark Twain
- Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. ~ John LeCarre
- I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~ Groucho Marx
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
- I was born with a reading list I will never finish. ~ Maud Casey
- I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. ~ Charles de Secondat
- If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. ~ Toni Morrison
- If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. ~ Haruki Murakami
- I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done. ~ Steven Wright
- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ~ Mortimer J. Adler
- It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ~ Oscar Wilde
