Children Reading Quotes:

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

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

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Education, Children, Book, Wacky, Inspiring Book

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

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Education, Book, Reading, Learning To Read, Children Reading

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

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

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

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

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Happiness, Attitude, 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

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

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

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

- B. F. Skinner

source: "The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans (p. 73), 1968.

topic: Inspiring, Education, Book, Joy Of Reading, Libraries And 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Joseph Addison

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

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

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

- Confucius

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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

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

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

- Sidney Sugarman

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

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

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.

- William James

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

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

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

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

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Trying To Fit In, Just Being You

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

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.

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Life, Graduation, Confidence, Going To College, Seeing Yourself

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke

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

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

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Individualism, Kids Inspirational, Life Journey

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

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

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

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

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

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

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

- Michael Morpurgo

source: "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

topic: Children, Reading, Fine, Children Reading

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.

- T. Berry Brazelton

topic: Children, Father, Reading, Children Reading, Brain Development

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.

- Mem Fox

topic: Teacher, Children, Book, Children Reading, Reading Aloud