About Quote by Honeysuckle Weeks

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to…

— Alan Bradley

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

— William Butler Yeats

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

— Jorge Luis Borges

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

— Jennie Garth

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

— Caroline Kennedy

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion…

— Nikola Tesla

“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.…

— Ianthe Brautigan

Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my grandchildren.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five,…

— Chris Abani

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

— Cornelia Funke

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

— Benjamin Franklin