Quotes for Today

I’m always looking to add to my quotes about reading – and I found these at this website.  Enjoy! http://www.inspiremykids.com/2017/20-inspiring-quotes-about-reading-for-kids-and-students/

1. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass
2. “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!”
3. “I find television very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” – Groucho Marx
4. “There are many little ways to enlarge your world.  Love of books is the best of all.” – Jacqueline Kennedy
5. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” – Margaret Fuller
6. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
7. “There are worse crimes than burning books.  One of them is not reading them.” – Ray Bradbury
8. “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” – Edmund Burke
9. “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes
10. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Richard Steele”
11. “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
12. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”  – Mary Schmich
13. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
14. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. — Lady Montagu
15. “To learn to read is to light a fire” — Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
16. “You can find magic wherever you look.  Sit back and relax all you need is a book!” – Dr. Seuss
17. “Books train your mind to imagination to think big – Taylor Swift
18. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
19. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body – Joseph Addison
20. “The whole world opened up to me when I learned to read” – Mary McCleod Bethune