Being Quote by Chris Van Allsburg

It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read…

— Robert Hass

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

— Alberto Manguel

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

— George Carlin

The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It…

— Walter Dean Myers

“Let's leave it for tonight. Is it a decent hour for two middle-aged people to go to bed?' He held out his hand for…

— Kate Wilhelm

We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the…

— Maryanne Wolf

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.

— Reza Aslan

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

— Phil McGraw

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

— David Warlick

Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely…

— David Crystal