Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.... The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)