Reading Quotes

4849 Reading quotes by 2815 unique authors

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
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie dePaola
I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write… — Arthur C. Clarke
Where do I find the time for not reading so many books? — Karl Kraus
Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. — Rufus Choate
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. — James McCosh
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. — John Milton
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by… — Edwin Paxton Hood
Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. — Charles Kingsley
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in… — H.G. Wells
Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S I Hayakawa
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a… — Kirk Douglas
The end of reading is not more books but more life. — Holbrook Jackson
When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. — Unknown Author
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on… — Harry Golden

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