Reading Books To Children Quotes:

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

- Mary Ellen Chase

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

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

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

- Malcolm X

topic: Life, Education, Reading, Library Cards, Libraries And Librarians

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

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

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

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

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

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

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Party, Book, Reading, Counselor, Orchard

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

- Mortimer Adler

source: "Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1998.

topic: Education, Book, Learning, Inspirational Reading, Love Of 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

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.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Cute, Listen To Me, Inspirational Children

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Reading, Book, Beer, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

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

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 plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.70, Ballantine Books

topic: Travel, Reading, Book, Journey Home, Inspirational 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

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke

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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

topic: Inspiring, Children, Book, Inspirational Children, Children's Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

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

- Joseph Addison

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

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

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

- Confucius

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