Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
– CS Lewis
Related Quotes:
- What makes you think children like childish things? Don’t tell them how to be children. They want to grow up. – MB Goffstein
- There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
- A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – CS Lewis
- What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading. – Rikki Ducornet
- I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. – Edna Ferber
- We’re children. We’re supposed to be childish. – George RR Martin
- No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally -“ and often far more -“ worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. – CS Lewis
- You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice. – John Lothrop Motley
- reading books is great, reading pictures much better, especially those that shows you the future – Manuel Corazzari
- If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed – Sunday Adelaja
- God is not to be blamed for your inability to fulfill your destiny – Sunday Adelaja
- Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians. – Colman McCarthy
- Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy – love which creates life? – mile Zola
- When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods. – SM White
- Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing. – Pawan Mishra
- …her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly. – Simone de Beauvoir
- It’s too much to be forgiven when all you want is to be blamed. – Non Pratt
- History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. – Jeffrey D Sachs
- My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. – Kahlil Gibran
- No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries. – Thomas Sowell
- Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return. – Priyanka Bhowmick
- Micro: When his mind detached from his body he saw the murderer stab him repeatedly. Later, he told the detective – who retired. He blamed stress. – Anthony North
- When leaders betray their people and the people don’t overthrow them, it’s not just the leaders who should be blamed. – Sergei Lukyanenko
- A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- When I was a child, I read books. My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard. I made vocabulary lists. – Marilynne Robinson
- When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
- There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children. – WH Auden
- Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books. – Theodore Roosevelt
- It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
- You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma