Reading Books To Children Quotes

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

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Book, Reading

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• You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Children, Book

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

  Malcolm X

  Life, Education, Book

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

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  War, Party, Book

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• My alma mater was books, a good library.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Reading, Library

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

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

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Education, Book

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

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• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Reading, Literacy

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Beer

  1849 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,'Sunday'.

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• Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Mind

  1849 'Nationality in Literature', in the North American Review, Jul.

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

  Anna Quindlen

  Travel, Book, Reading

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

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• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (1950). “Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• 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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• 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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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Independent Bookstores

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.119, Ballantine Books

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