Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

I think literacy is everything.

We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

No child should graduate from high school with a diploma he or she can’t read.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land.

Men who cannot read are the mercy of a few men who are interested in self more than in good government. The country is the sufferer; for the effect of one ballot is felt to the utmost extremity of the body politic; it touches every industry and trade, it accelerates or retards the wheels of commerce, and fills the avenues of trade with life and general activity such as is found in no other country.

The policy of rewarding those who learn to read and write by giving them a chance to vote remain in operation in New England for many years as an influence tending to reduce illiteracy

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of lack of potential.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

President Bush said that our kids must be taught how to read. He said if his aides never learned to read, they'd never be able to tell him what's in the newspapers every day.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Reading maketh a full man.