Sitting Bull Quotes

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

Reading taught me how to write.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

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

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

Reading is a huge part of life.

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

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

Reading is a bridge to thought.

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

Reading is more important than writing.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.