Are you looking for a way to motivate your kid or yourself to read? The ultimate list of quotes for kids, parents and teachers below can help you. Check it out!
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Importance of Reading Quotes To Motivate Kids (and Grown-ups) To Read
1. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss
2. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” Confucius
3. “It is better to know how to learn than to know.” Dr. Seuss
4. “A child who reads will be an adult who thinks.” Unknown
5. A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. Charles Baudelaire Share on X
6. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” Maya Angelou
7. “It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can.” Jane Hamilton
8. “It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” S.I. Hayakawa
9. “Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.” Jesse Lee Bennett
10. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Fredrick Douglas
11. Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. Alberto Manguel Share on X
12. “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” Gary Paulsen
13. “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” Lloyd Alexander
14. “The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” Roald Dahl, Matilda
15. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” Honore de Balzac
16. He that loves reading has everything within his reach. William Godwin Share on X
17. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” Mortimer J. Adler
18. “Readers are lucky – they will never be bored or lonely.” Natalie Babbitt
19. “Reading … a vacation for the mind.” Dave Barry
20. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” Mary Schmich
21. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.” Walt Disney
22. The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. Mary McLeod Bethune Share on X
23. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” Mason Cooley
24. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” George R.R. Martin from A Dance with Dragons
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Love of Reading Quotes
25. “I even love the smell of books.” Adriana Trigiani
26. “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” Groucho Marx
27. “A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket.” Chinese proverb
28. “An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” Thomas Wharton
29. Be awesome! Be a book nut! Dr. Seuss Share on X
30. “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” Henry Ward Beecher
31. “Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.” Carlos Ruiz Zafon
32. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” Anna Quindlen
33. “I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.” Wislawa Szymborska
34. Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Cornelia Funke Share on X
35. “My early and invincible love of reading — I would not exchange for the treasures of India.” Edward Gibbon
36. “The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” Tom Clancy
37. “You can find magic wherever you look.
Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” Dr. Seuss
38. Fiction Is My Addiction. Dr. Seuss Share on X
39. “You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.” Paul Sweeney
40. “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” Garrison Keillor
41. “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” Dr. Seuss
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Inspirational Reading Quotes
42. “I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.” Elbert Hubbard
43. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” Margaret Fuller
44. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Joseph Addison
45. “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.” Christopher Morley
46. In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. Anna Quindlen Share on X
47. “In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, ‘Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.’” Mary Rosewood, “Book 1; The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place”
48. “There’s something good in every book, but sometimes you just have to look for it.” Unknown
49. 120 Inspirational Reading Quotes for Kids, Parents and Teachers Share on X
50. “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested throughly.” Cornelia Funk
51. “There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.” Jim Fiebig
52. “Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” Hazel Rochman
53. “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
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Funny Reading Quotes
54. “Never judge a book by its movie.” J.W. Eagan
55. “I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.” Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
56. “You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.” Dr. Seuss
57. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss Share on X
58. “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” Austin Phelps
59. “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Toni Morrison
60. “What word in the English language has three consecutive double letters? Answer: Bookkeeper.” Unknown
61. “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx
62. I was reading a book…’history of glue’…I couldn’t put it down. Tim Vine Share on X
63. “Some women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.” Oprah Winfrey
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Famous Reading Quotes (Dr. Seuss, J K Rowling, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Stephen King, etc.)
64. “I am a part of everything that I have read.” Theodore Roosevelt
65. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
66. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” Stephen King
67. “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.” Bill Gates
68. The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t. Mark Twain Share on X
69. “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” Harry S. Truman
70. “I cannot live without books.” Thomas Jefferson
71. “My alma mater was books, a good library … I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” Malcolm X
72. I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp. JK Rowling Share on X
73. “So many books, so little time.” Frank Zappa
74. “Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.” Holbrook Jackson
75. “Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” Henry David Thoreau
76. We read to know we are not alone. C.S. Lewis Share on X
77. “A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Mark Twain
78. “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
79. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled is a spark.” Victor Hugo
80. You cannot open a book without learning something. Confucius Share on X
81. “The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I [haven’t] read.” Abraham Lincoln
82. “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” Kofi Anan
83. “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books.” Abraham Lincoln
84. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom” Robert Frost
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Reading Quotes For Teachers in Classroom
85. “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” Frank Serafini
86. “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” Mortimer J. Adler
87. “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” James Russell Lowell
88. “It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.” Dennis Parsons Burkitt
89. “If you can read this, thank a teacher.” Unknown
90. Teaching reading IS rocket science. Louisa Moats Share on X
91. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.” Roald Dahl
92. “When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.” Enrique Jardiel Poncela
93. “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
94. Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke Share on X
95. “Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.” – Art Spiegelman
96. “A reader lives a thousand lives, before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
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Reading Quotes For Parents
97. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.” Dr. Seuss
98. “From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.” Helen Hayes
99. “There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” – Mary Ellen Chase
100. Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words. Betty Smith Share on X
101. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” – Kate DiCamillo
102. “When I say to a parent, “read to a child”, I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.” – Mem Fox
103. “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” Lemony Snicket
104. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading,
nor any pleasure so lasting.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
105. Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. Emilie Buchwald Share on X
106. “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” C.S.Lewis
107. “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
108. There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. Jacqueline Kennedy Share on X
109. “There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away” – Emily Dickinson
110. “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
111. “You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be—I had a Mother who read to me.” Strickland Gilliland
112. “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.” Carl Sagan
113. A house without books is like a room without windows. Heinrich Mann Share on X
114. “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won’t have as much censorship because we won’t have as much fear.” Judy Blume
115. “Children’s reading and children’s thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.” Dr. Seuss