Reading Teacher Quotes:

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

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

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

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

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Happiness, Christmas, Thank You, Lake Wobegon, Old Books

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

- Joseph Addison

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

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Book, Reading And Literacy, Reading Teacher

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

- Charles William Eliot

source: Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Teacher, Joy Of Reading, Counselor

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

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

- William Lyon Phelps

source: William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Book, Inspiring 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

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

I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

- Sandra Cisneros

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Teacher, Reading, Responsibility, Reading Teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

- Kim Basinger

topic: Mother, Teacher, Children, Reading Teacher

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

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Funny, Happiness, Clever, Inspiring Book, Inspiring 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

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann

source: "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

- Austin Phelps

source: Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

topic: Book, Reading, Coats, Speed Reading, Old Books

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