Children About Reading Quotes:

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

- George W. Bush

topic: Children, Silly, Tests, Stupid Funny, Literacy And Children

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Children, Powerful, Inspirational Reading, Reading Inspirational

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Children, Book, Inspirational Reading, Book Reading

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

- Katherine Paterson

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Children, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

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

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

topic: Book, Reading, Library, Joy Of Reading, Diversion

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

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Smile, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Friendship, Education, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Dog

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.

- Mem Fox

topic: Children, Reading, Medicine, Children About Reading, Children Reading

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

- S. I. Hayakawa

topic: Life, Book, Reading, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Inspirational, Book, Reading, Children About Reading

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

- Marilyn Jager Adams

topic: Children, Reading, Skills, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Book, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

- Margaret Mead

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

topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Education

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.

- Sidney Sugarman

topic: Teacher, Children, Thinking, Happy Children, Kid At Heart

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

- Mortimer Adler

source: "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

topic: Inspirational, Good Life, Reading, Speed Reading, Book Reading

I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Reading, Stories, Lasts, Literacy And Children, Literacy For 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.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Wall, Book, Humor, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

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

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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

- Kate DiCamillo

topic: Children, Reading, Should, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

- George Carlin

topic: Faith, Children, Learning, Inspirational Education, Children's 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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

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

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Education, Inspirational Children, Inspirational Reading

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

- Judy Blume

source: FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Apr 16, 2013

topic: Freedom, Children, Philosophy, Children About Reading, Children Reading

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Reading, Carpe Diem, Literacy, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspirational, Education, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Life, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Book, Reading, Healing, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

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

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

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

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Children, Powerful, Reading, Favorite Book, Joy Of Reading

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

topic: Children, Thinking, People, Independent Bookstores, Decorating

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

- Marcel Proust

topic: Book, Reading, Childhood, Favorite Book, Inspirational Children

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

- Matthew Kelly

topic: Prayer, Reading, Exercise, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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

- Confucius

topic: Reading, Ignorance, Self, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

- Mary Ellen Chase

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

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

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Book, Reading, Forever, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

The more you read, the more things you will know.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

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

- James Russell Lowell

source: 1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

topic: Book, Reading, Mind, Joy Of Reading, Book Reading

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Children, Happy Children, Inspirational Children