Category: Quotes

  • “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 Susana Gómez Redondo
  • 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