Reading Quotes
- I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. — Coolio
- It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. — Denis Parsons Burkitt
- A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it… — Edward P. Morgan
- Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else. — Bill Blass
- Reading will give you lasting pleasure. — Laura Bush
- Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. — Joseph Addison
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions… — Mary Wortley Montagu
- It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. — Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
- As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide… — Marie Clay
- Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning… — Marilyn Jager Adams
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain
- Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. — Mary Schmich
- There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. — Mary Ellen Chase
- Choose an author as you choose a friend. — Christopher Wren
- The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Stan Barstow
- Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies… — Steven Pinker
- What is reading but silent conversation? — Walter Savage Landor
- So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young… — William James
- Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift. — Kate DiCamillo
- When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden