“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}

“Education is a vaccine for violence.” 

^{- Edward James Olmos}

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.” 

^{- Edward P. Morgan}

“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}

“Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ.” 

^{- Fortune}

“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)}

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.” 

^{- Gaston Bachelard}

“You cannot help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.” 

^{- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf}

“The nonreading children are the greatest problem in American education.” 

^{- Glenn Doman, "How to Teach Your Baby to Read"}

“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}

“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.” 

^{- Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education}

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

^{- Harry S. Truman}

“Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” 

^{- Hazel Rochman}

“Never judge a book by its movie.” 

^{- J.W. Eagan}

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” 

^{- Jacob Bronowski}

“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}

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.” 

^{- John Berger}

“Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.” 

^{- John Witherspoon}

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

^{- Joseph Brodsky}

“The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones.” 

^{- Joseph Joubert}

“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)}

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” 

^{- Logan Pearsall Smith}

“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"}

“Teaching reading IS rocket science.” 

^{- Louisa Moats}

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

^{- Lyndon Baines Johnson}

“When separated, flour, salt, yeast and water do not posess the unique poperties of bread.” 

^{- Lyndon W. Seaross and John E. Readence}

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” 

^{- Mahatma Gandhi}

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

^{- Margaret Fuller}

“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}

“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}

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

^{- Martin Tupper}

“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}

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

^{- May Ellen Chase}

“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending.” 

^{- Mick Foley}

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

^{- Mortimer Adler}

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.” 

^{- Munshi Premchand}

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” 

^{- Oliver Wendell Holmes}

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

^{- P. J. O'Rourke}

“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}

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.” 

^{- Robert Frost}

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” 

^{- Robertson Davies}

“It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” 

^{- S.I. Hayakawa}

“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}

“Choose an author as you choose a friend.” 

^{- Sir Christopher Wren}

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” 

^{- Somerset Maugham}

“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.” 

^{- Sydney Harris}

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” 

^{- Thomas Jefferson}

“Literacy arouses hopes, not only in society as a whole but also in the individual who is striving for fulfilment, happiness and personal benefit by learning how to read and write. Literacy... means far more than learning how to read and write... The aim is to transmit... knowledge and promote social participation.” 

^{- UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany}

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

^{- Victor Hugo}

“Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.” 

^{- Voltaire}

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

^{- W. B. Yeats}

“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}

“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” 

^{- Wendell Phillips}

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

^{- Will Durant}

“So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” 

^{- William James}

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

^{- William Phelps}