Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired… — Neil Gaiman
I hate leisure, except reading. I'm really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. — Karl Lagerfeld
Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first… — Cotton Mather
The keys to life are running and reading. — Will Smith
I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of… — Wendy Lesser
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, — Wendy Lesser
To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been… — Sara Sheridan
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire. — Unknown Author
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. — Charlie Munger
Your job, your invitation from the Universe, is to give people back to themselves. You can do this every day, in a hundred ways. All… — Neale Donald Walsch
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less… — William Coperthwaite
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if… — Elwyn Brooks White
If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book. — Andy Hargreaves
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success — Herb Brooks
It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people. — Sarah Strohmeyer
I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. — Francis Quarles
The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading… — Smith Wigglesworth
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every… — Mem Fox
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. — Mem Fox
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and… — Mem Fox
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or… — Mem Fox
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama
If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most… — Patricia Hampl

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