top of page
Exlpore more Bible quotes

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

"I have tried to have a regular daily intake from my Bible, regardless of how late it is."

"The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit."

"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."
Explore more quotes by Amy Tan

"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."

"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."

"My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have."

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."

"My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten."

"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."

"I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression."

"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
bottom of page