Reading Quote?

Question

I want to start off my essay on TKAM, All Summer in a Day and Animal Farm with a quote about reading or a really good quote from one of those books. Does anybody know any good quotes (preferably by a famous person)

Thank you!

Answer 1

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

Answer 2

My principle allways tells us, "Reading Rewards" but he's not exactly famous....

Answer 3

I collect quotes. these are some of my favorites.

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."  Ã¢Â€Â” Jorge Luis Borges

People only learn through two things. One is reading and the other is association with smarter people. -- Will Rogers

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

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places.

On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old

conversation that makes up our civilization. -- Timothy Healy

I read A Wrinkle in Time three times in a row once, when I was twelve, because I couldn't bear for it to end. -- Anna Quindlen

"The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I [haven't] read."— Abraham Lincoln

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

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”   Elizabeth Hardwick

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”  P. J. O'Rourke

I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.

I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want

you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with

the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters. -- Stephen King

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar, that we

cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know

ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others,

but of the way things are. -- Harold Bloom

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.” - Fashion designer Bill Blass, quoted in Worth (September 1999)



“Reading will give you lasting pleasure.”  Laura Bush



“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”

- Madonna (1991)

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

- Somerset Maugham

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”

- Voltaire

Answer 4

Attempting to answer your question was a joy and a delight for me.  I hope that you find the quotations that follow to be worthwhile.

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read.

One does not love breathing."

~ Harper Lee

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

~ Ray Bradbury



"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."

~ Ray Bradbury

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.  Just get people to stop reading them."

~ Ray Bradbury

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

~ George Orwell

"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

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

~ Chinese proverb