28 Quotes related to reading this February

28 Quotes related to reading this February

Reading improves brain function and sharpens your memory. Encourage children to make reading a habit every day. Here are some quotes related to reading:

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” - Dr. Seuss

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” - Garrison Keillor

“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!” - Betty Smith

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” - Victor Hugo

“The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.” - Mark Twain

“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 Gillilan

 “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” - Austin Phelps

“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglas

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.” - C.S. Lewis

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Beware of the person of one book.” - Thomas Aquinas

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” - Jane Smiley

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” - P.J. O’Rourke

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” - Ezra Pound

“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

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” - Carl Sagan

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat.” - E. Nesbit

“Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” - Arnold Lobel

“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others – even my nearest and dearest – there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.” - Maureen Corrigan

“My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” - Malcolm X

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Cicero

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” - Jules Verne

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