179 Quotes About Literacy

I’m the book lady. With the bag. I’ve secured both. The book and the bag.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.