Quotes About Literacy

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write.

I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed.

I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.

I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.

Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

And old Padre Jose telling him to read as much as he could for the world was open only to those who could read and this skill was the most precious gift that any teacher could give. -Istak

Frederick Douglass saw the same connection. When his master heard that young Frederick was reading well, he was furious, saying, "Learning will spoil the best nigger in the world. If he learns to read the Bible it will forever unfit him to be a slave." Douglass recalled that he "instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?

We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

This is for all you kids out there watching TV, when you should go open a book. Haha.

Reading is a tool no one can take away. A million bad things may happen in a life and it'll still be with you, like a flashlight that never needs a battery. Reading can offer a crack of light on the blackest of nights.

Hikayatin mo lahat ng kakilala mo na magkaroon ng kahit isa man lang paboritong libro sa buhay nila. Dahil wala nang mas kawawa pa sa mga taong literado pero hindi nagbabasa.

Nothing in my life ever happened that was as important to me as learning to read.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like getting some only on Valentine's Day.

Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading...the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

nenhum sistema educacional criado pelo homem o impediria de chegar aos livros.