Children About Reading Quotes

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

Groucho Marx

Inspirational, Funny, Smile

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

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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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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

Children, Reading, Skills

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

Mary Wortley Montagu

Book, Reading, Library

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

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

C. S. Lewis

Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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

Francis Bacon

Inspirational, Book, Reading

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

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Children, Book

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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

Children, Reading, Medicine

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness, Attitude, Book

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

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

George W. Bush

Children, Stupid, Silly

"Why Palin doesn't need National Grammar Day" by Robert Lane Greene, www.cnn.com. March 5, 2011.

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

Sidney Sugarman

Education, Teacher, Children

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

Margaret Mead

Education, Teacher, Children

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

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

Mortimer Adler

Inspirational, Life, Reading

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

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

J. K. Rowling

Reading, Stories, Lasts

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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr. Seuss

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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

Motivational, Wall, Book

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

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

Victor Hugo

Book, Reading, Healing

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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

Walt Disney

Inspirational, Life, Book

"Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Reading, Book, Thinking

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

Harry S. Truman

Happiness, Attitude, Book

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