Reading And Literacy Quotes

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

Words are the voice of the heart.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

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.

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

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.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

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.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

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.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

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.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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

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

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

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

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

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

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.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

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

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.

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

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.