Reading Quotes - Page 17

Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the example and help to foster this love of reading in our little ones.
Carmela Dutra
What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.
Sarah Jio
Shockingly, too many of our children don't read to grade level. Studies show that if a child does not read to grade level by third grade, that child is likely to drop out of school. I believe the love of reading begins at home. We should do all we can to make sure that our children and grandchildren stay in school and graduate. Reading to grade level is an important foundation.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
Reading helps children achieve their divine destinies
Soraya Diase Coffelt
No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.
Los Angeles Times
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
Mary Ellen Chase
A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive
Jen Selinsky
I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religiousorder. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr. Melcher's excitement in leading young peopleinto an expanding imagination. Because of the very nature of the world as it is today our childrenreceive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun,for pleasure, that they must be guided into creativity. These are forces working in the world asnever before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, orwhat I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin.This is the limited universe, the drying, dissipating universe, that we can help our children avoidby providing them with “explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
Madeleine L'Engle
...that the decline in reading among children was largely the fault of their parents. Parents these days don't read books, themselves, but they feel they should make their children read. Since they aren't readers, however, they have no idea what to give their children. That's why they cling to the recommendations from the Ministry of Education. Those books are all insufferably boring and, as a result, the kids learn to hate books. It's a vicious cycle with no end in sight.
Keigo Higashino
I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.
Amit Kalantri
Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.
Amit Kalantri
Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.
Amit Kalantri
You must go to the school or to the books or on the field because knowledge doesn't come to you, you must go to the knowledge.
Amit Kalantri
Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.
Amit Kalantri
For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.
Amit Kalantri
Learning and reading will enrich your life with wisdom for living.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Daily reading is a sacred knowledge.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Lover of books, lover of knowledge.
Lailah Gifty Akita
How could we love books more than money? This is the state of book lovers.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Nothing will be impossible for the one who reads.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Read, re-read! Every word you read is a food for thy soul!
Lailah Gifty Akita
Great literature makes a great life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated, deceived and abused. Their god was quick-tempered unreasonable, cruel, revengeful and dishonest. He was always promising but never performed. He wasted time in ceremony and childish detail, and in the exaggeration of what he had done. It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. He had solemnly promised the Jews that he would take them from Egypt to a land flowing with milk and honey. He had led them to believe that in a little while their troubles would be over, and that they would soon in the land of Canaan, surrounded by their wives and little ones, forget the stripes and tears of Egypt. After promising the poor wanderers again and again that he would lead them in safety to the promised land of joy and plenty, this God, forgetting every promise, said to the wretches in his power:—'Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness and your children shall wander until your carcasses be wasted.' This curse was the conclusion of the whole matter. Into this dust of death and night faded all the promises of God. Into this rottenness of wandering despair fell all the dreams of liberty and home. Millions of corpses were left to rot in the desert, and each one certified to the dishonesty of Jehovah. I cannot believe these things. They are so cruel and heartless, that my blood is chilled and my sense of justice shocked. A book that is equally abhorrent to my head and heart, cannot be accepted as a revelation from God.When we think of the poor Jews, destroyed, murdered, bitten by serpents, visited by plagues, decimated by famine, butchered by each, other, swallowed by the earth, frightened, cursed, starved, deceived, robbed and outraged, how thankful we should be that we are not the chosen people of God. No wonder that they longed for the slavery of Egypt, and remembered with sorrow the unhappy day when they exchanged masters. Compared with Jehovah, Pharaoh was a benefactor, and the tyranny of Egypt was freedom to those who suffered the liberty of God.While reading the Pentateuch, I am filled with indignation, pity and horror. Nothing can be sadder than the history of the starved and frightened wretches who wandered over the desolate crags and sands of wilderness and desert, the prey of famine, sword, and plague. Ignorant and superstitious to the last degree, governed by falsehood, plundered by hypocrisy, they were the sport of priests, and the food of fear. God was their greatest enemy, and death their only friend.It is impossible to conceive of a more thoroughly despicable, hateful, and arrogant being, than the Jewish god. He is without a redeeming feature. In the mythology of the world he has no parallel. He, only, is never touched by agony and tears. He delights only in blood and pain. Human affections are naught to him. He cares neither for love nor music, beauty nor joy. A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain, and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, and changeable, infamous and hideous:—such is the God of the Pentateuch.
Robert G. Ingersoll
There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.
Charles Lamb
I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote if you weren't enjoying a TV program...All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over [insert popular contemporary TV program] next time you have a choice.
Nick Hornby
When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.
Carmela Dutra
I remembered reading somewhere that if you smile at something, it automatically makes you happier.
Elizabeth Eulberg
When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinite possibilities.
Julie Anne Peters
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.
Maya Angelou
After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.
Criss Jami
I won't stay inwith married menany moresaid the wise girlthey're too agreeable,it's a little too muchlike curlingupwith the good book.You meanagood bookOh, dear,did I saythegood booksighed the witch.
Norman Mailer
Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad.
John Varley
Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Heaven would be a comfortable chair, a library, Diet Coke, and an occasional cheese pizza. Sex once in a while. No talking. ~ Drew Stirling
Jayden Hunter
I find joy in reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What we need is more books to read.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The Bible is the greatest literature of all times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You can renew your mind and revive spirit by reading great stories.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Renewal of mind begins with reading and mediation on the Scriptures.
Lailah Gifty Akita
You ought to the read stories of how people have endured the worst situation. You will find the strength to survive life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.
Sara Sheridan
A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.
Nirav Sanchaniya
Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.
Steven Rigolosi
Sometimes I forget myself in a book. And when i have to stop reading it takes me a minute to remember where I am. Or who I am.
Anonymous
Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.
Indu Muralidharan
This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.
Reif Larsen
I love digging myself into books because the moment I'm drifted from reality, I'm in a different world and I'm a different person.
Nathalie M. Llanto
No level raised without reading, is like a body trying to live without breathing.
Ilias Oumarri
In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don’t think I like reality very much. Principally, I don’t understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
Shirley Jackson
She lost touch with reality and was dragged into her imagination.
S.A. Tawks
He decided to re-read his story from the beginning. As he read he felt as if he was falling forwards into the blank, white spaces of the screen, and the words faded from his consciousness to be replaced completely by the things that they described.
K. Valisumbra
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music (oh yes), like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
Roberto Bolaño
It’s our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child’s life.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
We must pursue knowledge and wisdom above all other things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I wish to continue reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are my passion," James told her, "I cannot imagine passing a day without reading.
Sophie Barnes

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