Nicole Jordan Quotes

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I would read all day if I could.

I am a bookworm.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the writing on my breakfast Ovaltine over and over again because it was in front of me, and I couldn't help but read anything that was in front of me.

One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if I'm honest with myself, it's practically the only activity that I truly love to do.

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I'm a bookworm.

I was a big reader.

I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I did not have friends, but books kept my occupied most of the time.

I've always been a voracious reader.