You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read to a child.
—Anita Merina
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
—Frederick Douglas
Reading for me, is spending time with a friend.
—Gary Paulsen
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.
—Emma Thompson
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
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or a duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
―Kate DiCamillo
And we knew that in all languages, there are words as warm as breath and others as cold as metal.
―The Day Saida Arrived by
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
—Chinese Proverb
Hope and peace and love and trust
All the world is all of us.
—All The World by Liz Garton Scanlon
…if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
—The Twits by Roald Dahl
But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.
—Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
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 William Eliot
A story is about the reader, not the writer.
—Richard Peck
“‘What day is it?’, asked Winnie the Pooh.
‘It’s today,’ squeaked Piglet.
‘My favorite day,’ said Pooh.”—The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
— Langston Hughes
Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.
– Malala Yousafzai