children are our future and they deserve to know the world and the magic that can be found in it. sometimes traveling the world and through time and space is as easy as opening a book. The power of reading can inspire and motivate us all. reading can take us places we could only dream of.
so let these quotes inspire kids, and even yourself, to make time to read every day, remember the power of reading, and maybe meet new friends in the process.
“books are a unique portable magic”. – stephen’s king
“the more you read, the more things you will know. the more you learn, the more places you will go.” -dr seuss
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“I wouldn’t be a composer if it weren’t for the books I loved as a child. I think that when you can escape into a book, you train your imagination to think big and to think that there can be more than what you see.” – taylor swift
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader”. – margaret fuller
“There is no such thing as a child who hates reading; there are only children who have not found the right book.” – frank serafini
“Those who love reading have everything within their reach.” -william godwin
“From an early age, books were my constant companions and my local library, a place where I could find a new friend on every shelf.”- sarah jessica parker
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we know how to read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we want.” – yes hayakawa
“readers are lucky: they will never be bored or lonely”. – natalie babbitt
“The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” -tom clancy
“reading is the gateway for children that makes all other learning possible”. – barack obama
“I had a lot of dreams growing up, and I think a lot of that came from the fact that I had the opportunity to read a lot.” -bill gates
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“wherever you go, bookstores remain the closest thing to a city square.”―gloria steinem
“A reader lives a thousand lives before dying . . . the man who never reads lives only one.” – george r.r. martin
“reading is essential for those seeking to rise above the ordinary”. -jim rohn
“reading is a discount ticket to go everywhere.”- mary schmich
“there is more treasure in the books than in all the loot of the pirates on treasure island”. – walt disney
“I have challenged myself to read thousands of books and I will empower myself with the knowledge. pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.” – malala yousafzai
“I always carried two books in my pocket, one to read and one to write.” -robert louis stevenson
“books are the mirrors of the soul.”―virginia woolf
“reading is time travel.” – carl sagan
“You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little like you’ve lost a friend.” – paul sweeney
“some books set us free and some books set us free.” -ralph waldo emerson
“Luckily, I always travel with a book, in case I have to wait in line for Santa Claus or some similar inconvenience.” – david levitan
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“books are a good company, both in sad moments and in happy ones, because books are people, people who have managed to survive by hiding between the covers of a book”. – eb white
“books break the shackles of time: proof that humans can do magic”. – carl sagan
“I’m old-fashioned and I think reading books is the most glorious hobby mankind has ever devised.” – wisława szymborska
“you can find magic everywhere you look. sit back and relax, all you need is a book!” -dr seuss
“reading, for me, is spending time with a friend”. -gary paulsen
“let the children read what they want and then talk to them”. -judy blume
“when you learn to read, you will be born again… and you will never be so alone again”. – rumer god
“reading is important because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything”. -tomie depaola
“readers are lucky, they will never be bored or lonely.”- natalie babbitt
“never trust anyone who hasn’t brought a book with them.” – daniel handler, aka lemony snicket
“If you want your kids to be smart, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be smarter, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein
“a book, a pen, a child and a teacher can change the world”. – malala yousafzai
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