Quotes About Reading

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That's if you want to teach them to think.

But remember that reading provides nourishment for hungers we might not even be aware of. How often have I chosen a book at random and found in it an answer I didn't realize I was seeking.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

an excellent reader and was starting a new book that had something to do with pirates and buried treasure. That was interesting to me because I like to bury my treasures (like nuts and other

HUMPHREY'S TOP SECRET SCRIBBLES Sometimes you have to LOOK-LOOK-LOOK To find the very perfect book.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

An?lar, belli bir okuyu?un sa?layabilece?i anlamlar? ta??r ancak. Anahtar? yaz?lmad?kça birtak?m benekler olarak kalan notalar gibi.

William Glasser: "We learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.

If you can't get a boy, get a book.

There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don't. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

There's a wonderful book, Religious Literacy by Stephen Prothero, which cites a poll that half of Americans can't name Genesis as the first book of the Bible. This is part of the dumbing down of our culture. One of those books that 50 percent of Americans apparently aren't reading is the Bible, or they would know that Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It's sort of like, "I don't know what Genesis is, but I believe it.

Three hundred miles away, in Philadelphia, forty-nine-year-old Benjamin Franklin sits naked in his bedroom. He is reading a book with the windows wide open while enjoying the rejuvenation of his daily "air bath.

Two days later, a woman in Reading, Pennsylvania, also