Classic Book Quotes:

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

- James M. Barrie

source: James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Improve Self Esteem, Self-doubt

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Happiness, Inspiring, Philosophical, Memorable Harry Potter, Inspirational Harry Potter

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

- Gene Roddenberry

source: Star Trek: The Next Generation (television series). This third mission statement was first used in the episode "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987). See Killian 1; Roddenberry 2; Roddenberry 3

topic: Men, Years, Civilization, Kirk, Star Trek Next Generation

To boldly go where no one has gone before

- Stephen Hawking

source: Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking (2009). “George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

topic: Courage, Gone, Cider, The Next One, Star Trek Next Generation

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

- Judith Viorst

topic: Australia, Children's Literature, Children Literature, Classic Book

I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

- Judith Viorst

source: "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day". Book by Judith Viorst, June 16, 1972.

topic: Running, Morning, Mistake, Mom Knows Best, Classic Book

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

- Erich Maria Remarque

topic: War, Giving, Would Be, War Movie, Birdsong

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.crosswalk.com

topic: Book, Classic, Christianity, Classic Book

I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."

- Matthew Specktor

topic: Book, Mean, Night, Classic Book

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

- Ann Widdecombe

topic: War, Book, School, Classic Book

I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

- Emma Donoghue

source: "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

topic: Book, Thinking, Fearless, Classic Book

I've heard people ask, What's so sacred about a classic books that you can't change it for the modern child? Nothing is sacred about a classic. What makes a classic is the life that has accrued to it from generation after generation of children. Children give life to these books. Some books which you could hardly bear to read are, for children, classic.

- Frances Clarke Sayers

source: Source: www.hbook.com

topic: Children, Book, Giving, Classic Book

John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back.” Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don’t’ live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Book, Differences, Giving, Live For Yourself, Classic Book