Quotes on Reading Books To Children

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

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

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

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.