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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.”
@George R.R. Martin
“Books are the quietest of friends. They are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
@Charles W. Eliot
“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
@Diane Duane
“You can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.”
@Sherry K. Plummer
“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
@Conan Doyle
“To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.”
@Chinese Proverb
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
@Fran Lebowitz
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.”
@Jacqueline Kennedy
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
@Paul Sweeney
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul: books.”
@Emily Dickinson
“Reading is a way for me to expand my mind, open my eyes, and fill up my heart.”
@Oprah Winfrey
“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.”
@Roald Dahl
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
@Jorge Luis Borges
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
@Henry David Thoreau
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
@Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reading … a vacation for the mind.”
@Dave Barry
“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”
@Alberto Manguel
“Readers are lucky – they will never be bored or lonely.”
@Natalie Babbitt
“Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.”
@Dr. Seuss
“My early and invincible love of reading — I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”
@Edward Gibbon
“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
@Vladimir Nabokov
“My alma mater was books, a good library … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
@Malcolm X
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.”
@Benjamin Franklin
“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvellous adventures that anyone can have.”
@Lloyd Alexander
“I think reading one book leads to another book.”
@Kate DiCamillo
“I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.”
@Wislawa Szymborska
“Kids lose themselves in books, they find themselves there too.”
@Lewis Keegan
“I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.”
@Elbert Hubbard
“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.”
@Thomas Wharton
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home.”
@Anna Quindlen
Short Quotes About Reading for Kids
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
@S.I. Hayakawa
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
@Henry Ward Beecher
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
@Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
@Charles Baudelaire
“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.”
@Helen Hayes
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
@Anna Quindlen
“I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.”
@J.K. Rowling
“There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
@J.K. Rowling
“Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting, and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives us a terrific advantage.”
@Roald Dahl
“When I say to a parent, “read to a child”, I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”
@Mem Fox
“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.”
@Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
@Dr. Seuss
“Books can be dangerous. The best one should be labeled “This could change your life.”
@Helen Exley
“Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.”
@Gary Paulsen
“You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”
@Dr. Seuss
“I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.”
@Abraham Lincoln
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
@Confucius
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
@Groucho Marx
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.”
@Frank Serafini
“I cannot live without books.”
@Thomas Jefferson
“Reading is an exercise in empathy. An exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.”
@Malorie Blackman
“One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.”
@Malala Yousafzai
“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”
@May Ellen Chase
“Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”
@Roald Dahl
“The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.”
@Tom Clancy
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
@J.K. Rowling
“When I say to a parent, ‘read to a child’, I don’t want it to sound like medicine, I want it to sound like chocolate.”
@Mem Fox
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
@Theodore Roosevelt
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
@Mortimer J. Adler
“You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be — I had a mother who read to me.”
@Strickland Gillilan
Amazing Reading Quote for Kids
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
@Albert Einstein
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
@Victor Hugo
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
@Harry S. Truman
“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.”
@Helen Exley
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
@Emilie Buchwald
“The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read.”
@Abraham Lincoln
“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
@Holbrook Jackson
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
@Edmund Burke
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
@Napoleon Bonaparte
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
@Ray Bradbury
“It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.”
@Jane Hamilton
“There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all.”
@Jacqueline Kennedy
“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”
@C.S. Lewis
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
@Groucho Marx
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
@Bill Gates
“Books train your mind to imagination to think big.”
@Taylor Swift
“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 birds take to the sky.”
@William James
“You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax all you need is a book!”
@Dr. Seuss
“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
@William Godwin
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
@Dr. Seuss
“One of the greatest gifts adults can give- to their offspring and to their society- is to read to children.”
@Carl Sagan
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.”
@Kate DiCamillo
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.”
@Neil Gaiman
“One of the greatest gifts adults can give – to their offspring and to their society – is to read to children.”
@Carl Sagan
“Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.”
@Rick Riordan
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read. There are only children who have not found the right book.”
@Frank Serafini
“There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away.”
@Emily Dickinson
“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.”
@Katherine Patterson
“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.”
@Mark Twain
“Books hold a magical appeal for children that goes far beyond the stories they contain.”
@Dr. Marion Blank
Famous Quote About Reading for Kids
“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”
@Samuel Johnson
“Books train your imagination to think big.”
@Taylor Swift
“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
@Gary Paulsen
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
@Ernest Hemingway
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
@Stephen King
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
@GarrisonKeiller
“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
@J.K. Rowling
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.”
@Descartes
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
@Walt Disney
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”
@Maya Angelou
“Reading is the gateway for children that makes all other learning possible.”
@Barack Obama
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
@Roald Dahl
“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”
@Jeanette Winterson
“Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.”
@Jim Rohn
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled is a spark.”
@Victor Hugo
“There is nothing better than a good book and a cosy blanket to get lost in.”
@R. Summer
“Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.”
@Kate DiCamillo
“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
@J.K. Rowling
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
@Lemony Snicket
“The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read”
@Mary McLeod Bethune
New Quotes for Kids About Reading
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
@C.S. Lewis
“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them.“
@Judy Blume
“There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are some kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.”
@James Patterson
“The books transported her into a new world and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.”
@Matilda by Roald Dahl
“I am part of everything that I have ever read.”
@Theodore Roosevelt
“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally- and often far more- worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
@C.S. Lewis
“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
@Austin Phelps
“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
@Mary Schmich
“The journey of a lifetime starts with the turning of a page.”
@Rachel Anders
“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
@James Russell Lowell
“I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.”
@Dr. Seuss
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
@Mark Twain
“Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
@Oprah Winfrey
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
@Cornelia Funke
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
@Groucho Marx
“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”
@Dr. Seuss
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
@Anna Quindlen
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
@Groucho Marx
“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
@Dr. Seuss
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
@Albert Einstein
“I do not read a book. I hold a conversation with the author.”
@Elbert Hubbard
“You are never alone when you are lost in the magic of a book.”
@Marie Lu
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.”
@Stephen King
“When books are opened you discover you have wings.”
@Helen Hayes
“I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.”
@Coolio
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
@Lena Dunham
“A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket.”
@Chinese Proverb
“You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.”
@Dr. Seuss
“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
@Betty Smith
“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”
@Robert Frost
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
@Confucius
“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”
@Holbrook Jackson
“So many books, so little time.”
@Frank Zappa
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”
@Mason Cooley
“Reading…a vacation for the mind.”
@Dave Barry
“Reading brings us unknown friends.”
@Honore de Balzac
“Books are the quietest of friends.”
@Charles W. Eliot
“The things I want to know are in books.”
@Abraham Lincoln
“I was reading a book…’history of glue’…I couldn’t put it down.”
@Tim Vine
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