Quotes

"Books are the bees which carry the quickeninig pollen from one to another mind" - James Russell Lowell

"So please, oh Please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away And in its place you install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall" - Roald Dahl, 'Charlie and the Chocolate factory'

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." - Dr. Seuss "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could cahnge your life."" - Helen Exley

"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a liltle farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves" - E.M. Forster

"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

"There are many little ways to enlarge yout child's world. Love of books is the best of all." - Jacqueline Kennedy

"Teaching reading IS rocket science." - Louisa Moats

"Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!" - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library." - Jorge Luis Borges

"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't." - Mark Twain

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book." Austin Phelps

"You may have tangible wealth untolad. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - I had a mother who read to me." - Strickland Gillilan

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." - Walt Disney

"The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive." - The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1964

"I'm not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you." - George Bernard Shaw

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglass

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." - William Hazlitt

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." - E.P. Whipple

"Never judge a book by its movie." - J.W. Eagan

"I was born with a reading list I will never finish." - Maud Casey

"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." - Richard McKenna

"Books had instant replay long before televised sports." - Bern Williams

"A book is a gift you can open again and again." Garrison Keillor