Importance Of Reading Quotes

• To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  A.C. Grayling

  Reading, Views, Ideas

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

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Education, Book

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.270

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• 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

  Happiness, Children, Attitude

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• Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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

  Frederick Douglass

  Reading, Book, Forever

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

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Book, Reading, Passion

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• I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Book, Learning

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

  Matthew Kelly

  Prayer, Book, Reading

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.243, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• 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

  Life, Book, Reading

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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  Clarence Day

  Art, Book, Reading

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• It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Book, Reading

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Education

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Aug 30, 2015

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Reading

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

  Eric Ripert

  Dream, Reading, Importance

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

  Katherine Paterson

  Children, Reading, Giving

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• There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

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• Richer than I you can never be,
  I had a mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Reading, Mother And Son

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Independent Bookstores, Reading Books

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Reading, Writing

  'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

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

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

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Book, Reading

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