Reading Quotes - Page 6

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I realized after reading the fourth chapter of St. John's Gospel, that Christ was truly the Divine Saviour he claimed to be, and no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden women of India. ... Thus my heart was drawn to the religion of Christ.

In 1970 the top three skills required by the Fortune 500 were the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. In 1999 the top three skills in demand were teamwork, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. We need schools that are developing these skills.

A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.