Quotes on Reading And Literacy

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

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

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

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

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

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

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.