What quote would you write when signing a gift dc's book?

[Anna]

Recently, I gave a children's book as a gift for a dear friend to keep at her house for reading to her grand-dc. I haven't seen her since she's received the book but she mailed me a "thank you" and said that she wanted me to sign the book for her so that her gdc and great-gdc will always know who gave them the book.

 

Help! My creative brain has been on overload lately. I'd like to write an appropriate quote along with my signature in the book. What would you write as a quote when signing a dc's book?

 

Thanks so much guys,

[Anna]

Please???

[Gamom3]

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[Anna]

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Surely the weather report was not your suggestion of a quote to write in a book???;)

[Anna]

Pretty please with sugar on top???

[Crissy]

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

-Joseph Addison

 

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

-Carlyle

 

Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in traveling, in the country.

-Cicero

[Unicorn.]

Don't have a quote for you, but if it were me, I would just write a quick note about your friendship, something from your heart. Or maybe something like ... " Friends name, I hope this brings you and your grandchildren many hours of happiness, ... Love/always/Yours/whatever works here, Anna"

 

Sorry, my brain isn't awake yet and that's all I've got this morning. HTH a little.

[Crissy]

Sorry. I meant to start a new thread.

[mcconnellboys]

I had a work friend who used to give my children books, and she always wrote something that related to the book. I *really* liked this idea and I always try to do the same. So what sort of book is it? That would help me (if I know it) to give you an idea of what I'd say in that particular book......

 

Regena

[6packofun]

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,

And all the sweet serenity of books.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann

 

Books to the ceiling,

Books to the sky,

My pile of books is a mile high.

How I love them! How I need them!

I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

~Arnold Lobel

 

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

~Jane Austen

 

Fairy tales are more than true:

not because they tell us that dragons exist,

but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

~G.K. Chesterton

 

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

~ Chinese proverb ~

 

There is more treasure in books than

in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

~ Walt Disney ~

 

It is a great thing to start life with a small number

of really good books which are your very own.

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ~

 

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends

imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

Read in order to live.

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,

but the thought which it suggests;

just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones

but in the echoes of our hearts.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

 

I have good reason to be content,

for thank God I can read and

perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

~ John Keats ~

 

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen

from one to another mind.

~ James Russell Lowell ~

 

Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

~Groucho Marx

 

The more that you read,

the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

the more places you'll go.

~ Dr. Seuss ~

 

We read to know we are not alone.

~C.S. Lewis

 

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

~Victor Hugo

 

 

***Sorry this is so long...I collect quotes on books/reading!

[Anna]

Thanks, guys. These are some good quotes.:)

[Heidi @ Mt Hope]

This one might not work for your situation, but I've used this quote in a gift book for a very young child:

 

My Lamb, you are so very small,

You have not learned to read at all.

Yet never a printed book withstands

The urgence of your dimpled hands.

So, though this book is for yourself,

Let mother keep it on the shelf

Till you can read. O days that pass,

That day will come too soon, alas!

~E. Nesbit

[6packofun]

This one might not work for your situation, but I've used this quote in a gift book for a very young child:

 

My Lamb, you are so very small,

You have not learned to read at all.

Yet never a printed book withstands

The urgence of your dimpled hands.

So, though this book is for yourself,

Let mother keep it on the shelf

Till you can read. O days that pass,

That day will come too soon, alas!

~E. Nesbit

 

I love that! :)

[Volty]

When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear. - Jack Handey