Children Reading Quotes

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

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.

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

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.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

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.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

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.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Love of books is the best of all.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.