We have a collection of quotes on the importance and benefits of reading for young children. Here are some wonderfully insightful quotes from some great literary minds that will remind you why children should read.
001. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”
Frederick Douglass
002. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go”
Dr. Seuss
003. “There are many little ways to enlarge your world. Love of books is the best of all”
Jacqueline Kennedy
004. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”
Margaret Fuller
005. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island”
Walt Disney
006. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries”
Descartes
007. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”
Richard Steele
008. “Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere”
Mary Schmich
009. “Books are uniquely portable magic”
Stephen King
010. “To learn to read is to light a fire”
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
011. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax all you need is a book!”
Dr. Seuss
012. “Books train your mind to imagination to think big”
Taylor Swift
013. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books”
Roald Dahl
014. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body”
Joseph Addison
015. “A book is a gift you can open again and again”
Garrison Keillor
016. “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales”
Albert Einstein
017. “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope”
Kofi Annan
018. “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”
Frederick Douglass
019. “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him”
Maya Angelou
020. “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book”
Frank Serafini
021. “Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking”
Albert Einstein
022. “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children”
Carl Sagan
023. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light”
Vera Nazarian
024. “There is no substitute for books in the life of a child”
May Ellen Chase
025. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark”
Victor Hugo
026. “When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again”
Rumer Godden
027. “It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can”
Jane Hamilton
028. “Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them”
Neil Gaiman
029. “Reading is not optional”
Walter Dean Myers
030. “I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books”
Abraham Lincoln
031. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom”
Robert Frost
032. “Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world”
Malala Yousafzai
033. “What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person”
Carl Sagan
034. “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear”
Judy Blume
035. “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book”
J.K. Rowling
036. “Books are a uniquely portable magic”
Stephen King
037. “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
038. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one”
George R.R. Martin
039. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island”
Walt Disney
040. “Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi”
Oprah Winfrey
041. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing”
Harper Lee
042. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world”
Napoléon Bonaparte
043. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary”
Jim Rohn
044. “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift”
Kate DiCamillo
045. “Think before you speak. Read before you think”
Fran Lebowitz
046. “Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading”
Lena Dunham
047. “At a time when book banning is back in vogue, libraries remind us that truth isn’t about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information”
Barack Obama
