Barack Obama Quotes

When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

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

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

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.

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important.

What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

Man is what he reads.

I'm always reading something.

I have always advised men to read.

I spend a lot of time reading.

I love to read and learn.

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

I'm actually not that big a fan of reading.