Reading Books To Children Quotes

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

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.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

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.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

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.

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.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Love of books is the best of all.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.