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

    "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.
  • Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

    Prayer   Book   Reading  
    Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing
  • Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

  • Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  • To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

    Book   Reading   Healing  
    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

    Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”
  • I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

    Children   Wall   Reading  
    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.93, Penguin
  • You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

    Children   Stupid   Silly  
    "Why Palin doesn't need National Grammar Day" by Robert Lane Greene, www.cnn.com. March 5, 2011.
  • Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

  • Love of books is the best of all.

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

    Book   Reading   Writing  
    Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub
  • Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

  • Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

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

    Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155
  • Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

  • I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

    Children   Book   Reading  
    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big difference. Hollywood and the NBA or NFL could step in, too. In England they have an event called Book Day, where every child receives a pound to use at any bookstore.

    Children   Book   Reading  
  • 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.

    Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin
  • If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.

  • It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

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

  • Anything that gets children reading is fine.

    Children   Reading   Fine  
    "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.
  • So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

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

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

    Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015
  • I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

    Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books
  • You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  • No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

    Book   Reading   Library  
    Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

    Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”
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