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

^{- Anonymous teacher}

“We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” 

^{- B. F. Skinner}

“We read to know we are not alone.” 

^{- C.S. Lewis}

“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!"}

“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}

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

^{- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf}

“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}

“The goal in fluency instruction is not fast reading, although that happens to be a by-product of the instruction, but fluent meaning-filled reading.” 

^{- International Reading Association}

“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.” 

^{- Isaac D'Israeli}

“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}

“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}

“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.” 

^{- Joseph Addison}

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

^{- Joseph Brodsky}

“To teach is to learn twice.” 

^{- Joseph Joubert}

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

^{- 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}

“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"}

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

^{- Lyndon Baines Johnson}

“Listening to good models of fluent reading, students can learn how a reader's voice can help text make sense.” 

^{- M.R. Kuhn & S.A. Stahl, "Fluency: A Review of Development and Remedial Practices" (2003)}

“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.” 

^{- Madonna (1991)}

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

^{- Mahatma Gandhi}

“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” 

^{- Marcel Proust}

“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}

“As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the... story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.” 

^{- Marie Clay}

“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.”