Reading And Literacy Quotes

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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

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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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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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

  Harry S. Truman

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

  Malcolm X

  Education, Reading, Long

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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

  Garrison Keillor

  Happiness, Christmas, Thank You

  Attributed to Keillor in "The Miracle of Language" by Richard Lederer, p. 149, 1999.

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• A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Reading, Library

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• Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Luxury, Literacy

  Clinton, William J. (1995). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994”, p.1503, Best Books on

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Friendship, Book, Reading

  'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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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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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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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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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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