Reading Quotes

“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.”

“Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.”

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends.”

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

“Everywhere I go, the kids call me "the book lady." It makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.”

“I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.”

“From the time that I can remember having any thoughts about anything, I recall that I had an intense longing to learn to read.”

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”

“The proper study of mankind is books.”

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

Dr. Seuss

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

Francis Bacon

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

John Locke

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

Thomas Carlyle

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

Francis Bacon

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries."

Rene Descartes

"I cannot live without books."

Thomas Jefferson

"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."

"Literature is my Utopia."

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."

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

Roald Dahl

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

Dr. Seuss

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

Harry S. Truman

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

Edmund Burke