David Crockett Quotes

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Reading is a huge part of life.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I'm always reading something.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Said Aldermen shall forwith proceed to have a schoolhouse built ... and shall see that the same be kept in repair.... At everyone of these schools shall be taught reading, writing, and common arithmetic, and the books which shall be used herein for instructing the children to read shall be such as will at the same time make them acquainted with Grecian, Roman, English and American history.

You could not let your masters see you read; but now [after Emancipation] the colored people are fond of sending their children to school. Because the children in after years will be able to tell us ignorant ones how to do for ourselves.

Russian literacy in the early twentieth century remained below 33 percent—lower than that of Great Britain in the eighteenth century.

My passion for books has changed my life.

I owe everything to Spain - that's where I learned to write, to read, and to play football.

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Read, read read. Read everything.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.