BOOK in Classic Quotes

1  I began at once to devour this book, and I think that it was the first one I ever had in my hands.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

2  The first thing I ever learned in the way of book knowledge was while working in this salt-furnace.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

3  I felt from the first that mere book education was not all that the young people of that town needed.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

4  The bigger the book and the longer the name of the subject, the prouder they felt of their accomplishment.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

5  The students do not seem to want to see me carry a large book or a satchel or any kind of a burden through the grounds.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

6  On the other hand, their six or eight years of book education had weaned them away from the occupation of their mothers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.

7  Many of the coloured people took advantage of the occasion to get him to write his name in a book or on a slip of paper.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV.

8  Some day-schools were formed soon after freedom, but the principal book studied in the Sunday-school was the spelling-book.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

9  When it came to brickmaking, their distaste for manual labour in connection with book education became especially manifest.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter X.

10  Soon after we got settled in some manner in our new cabin in West Virginia, I induced my mother to get hold of a book for me.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

11  I think I do not go too far when I say that I have read nearly every book and magazine article that has been written about Abraham Lincoln.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.

12  To take the children of such people as I had been among for a month, and each day give them a few hours of mere book education, I felt would be almost a waste of time.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII.

13  I determined, when quite a small child, that, if I accomplished nothing else in life, I would in some way get enough education to enable me to read common books and newspapers.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

14  I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses to carry her books.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.

15  Two of these, on the front seat, were using the book between them; behind these were two others peeping over the shoulders of the first two, and behind the four was a fifth little fellow who was peeping over the shoulders of all four.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII.

16  When a Negro girl learns to cook, to wash dishes, to sew, or write a book, or a Negro boy learns to groom horses, or to grow sweet potatoes, or to produce butter, or to build a house, or to be able to practise medicine, as well or better than some one else, they will be rewarded regardless of race or colour.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.

17  In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely informed about the great National questions that were agitating the country.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.