quotes about reading
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“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a
love of reading.” ~ B.F. Skinner
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
~ B.B. King
“We read to know we are not alone.” - C.S. Lewis
“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him
just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him
a whole new life.” - Christopher Morley
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you
must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
- Confucius
“Reading without reflecting is like eating
without digesting.” - Edmund Burke
“Children are made readers on the laps of their
parents.” - Emilie Buchwald
“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab
to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is
READ.” - Fortune
“I find television very educating. Every time
somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.” - Groucho Marx
“If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
~ Anonymous
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are
readers.” - Harry S. Truman
“Never judge a book by its movie.” - J.W. Eagan
“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of
books is the best of all.” - Jacqueline Kennedy
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we
have that people are still thinking.”
- Jerry Seinfield
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
- Joseph Brodsky
“A book is the most effective weapon against
intolerance and ignorance.”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
- Margaret Fuller
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who can't read.” - Mark Twain
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay
where we are.” - Mason Cooley
“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
“A man is known by the books he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the
body.” - Richard Steele
“Choose an author as you choose a friend.” - Sir Christopher Wren
“I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and
those who read to forget.” - William Phelps
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
- W. Fusselman
“So many books, so little time.”
- Frank Zappa
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to
read.” - Groucho Marx
“A room without books is like a body without a
soul.” - Cicero
“A house without books is like a room without
windows.” - Horace Mann
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
- Alice Hoffman
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination, and the journey. They are
home.” - Anna Quindlen
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love
breathing.” - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“Books, the children of the brain.”
- Jonathan Swift
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
- W. Fusselman
“The world was hers for the reading.”
- Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“There's more to life than books, you know, but not
much more.”-Steven Morrissey