IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.” — Fran Veal Copy Share Image
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
No time is ever wasted if you have a book along as a companion. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor. — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The pauper is vulnerable to pride and pride is the destroyer of man's glory.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
