“If you can read this, thank a teacher.” 

^{- Anonymous teacher}

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” 

^{- B.B. King}

“We read to know we are not alone.” 

^{- C.S. Lewis}

“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” 

^{- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones}

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.” 

^{- Christopher Morley}

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” 

^{- Confucius}

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” 

^{- Descartes}

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

^{- Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"}

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” 

^{- Edmund Burke}

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.” 

^{- Elbert Hubbard}

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.” 

^{- Elizabeth Hardwick}

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” 

^{- Emilie Buchwald}

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” 

^{- Frederick Douglass}

“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” 

^{- Gandhi (1869-1948)}

“Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.” 

^{- Goethe}

“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.” 

^{- Grace Slick}

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

^{- Groucho Marx}

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

^{- Groucho Marx}

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

^{- Harry S. Truman}

“Never judge a book by its movie.” 

^{- J.W. Eagan}

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

^{- Jacqueline Kennedy}

“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” 

^{- Jerry Seinfield}

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

^{- Joseph Brodsky}

“To teach is to learn twice.” 

^{- Joseph Joubert}

“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 Patterson}

“Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension.” 

^{- Kelly L. Briggs, "Reading in the Classroom" (2003)}

“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.” 

^{- Lord Henry P. Brougham}

“No skill is more crucial to the future of a child, or to a democratic and prosperous society, than literacy.” 

^{- Los Angeles Times, "A Child Literacy Initiative for the Greater Los Angeles Area"}

“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.” 

^{- Lyndon Baines Johnson}

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

^{- Margaret Fuller}

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

^{- Margaret Mead}

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.” 

^{- Mark Twain}

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” 

^{- Mark Twain}

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” 

^{- Mary Schmich}

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

^{- Mason Cooley}

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.” 

^{- Maud Casey}

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” 

^{- Plato}

“Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.” 

^{- President Clinton on International Literacy Day, September 8th 1994}

“A man is known by the books he reads.” 

^{- Ralph Waldo Emerson}

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

^{- Ray Bradbury}

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

^{- Richard Steele}

“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” 

^{- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory}

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.” 

^{- Samuel Johnson}

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” 

^{- Samuel Johnson}

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

^{- W. Fusselman}

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.” 

^{- Walt Disney}

“What is reading but silent conversation?” 

^{- Walter Savage Landor}

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” 

^{- Will Durant}

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

^{- William Phelps}