Thoughts—Reading	
QUICK CHECK:
1. Seuss: What 3 things happen when you read?
2. Disney: Where is there more treasure?
3. Fuller:  What makes a house a home?
4. Twain:  Who has no advantage over a person 	
who can't read.	
5. Truman: What are all leaders?
6. Douglas:  When are you forever free?
7. Chinese saying:  What is a book like?
8. Okri: What does reading build?
9. Rowling: Why may you not like to read?
10. Parker:  Which books help you most?
11. Macaulay:  Who would he not want to be?
12. When Lincoln reads aloud, what happens:
 a) First?  b) Second?  c) Therefore, what?
13. DiCamillo: How should reading be offered?
14. a) Which quote did you like?  b) Why?
15. a) Do you think that readers can make better 	
decisions than nonreaders?  b) Why?	
The more that you read, the more things you will 
know; the more things you will learn; the more 
places you will go.      —Dr. Seuss
There is more treasure in books than in all the 
pirates’ loot on Treasure Island . . . and you can 
enjoy these riches every day of your life.     
    —Walt Disney
A house is not a home unless it contains food and 
fire for the mind as well as for the body.
    —Margaret Fuller
The person who does not read good books has no 
advantage over the person who can’t read them.
    —Mark Twain
Think before you speak.  Read before you think.
     —Fran Lebowitz
Not all readers are leaders; but all leaders are 
readers.   —Harry S. Truman
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.   
   ——Frederick Douglas
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
    —Chinese saying
Reading is one of the greatest acts of civilization 
because it takes the free raw material of the mind 
and builds castles of ideas and possibilities.   — Okri
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. 
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
    —Mortimer Adler
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right 
book.    —J.K. Rowling
The books that help you the most are those which 
make you think the most.  —T. Parker	
I would rather be a poor man with plenty of books 
than a king who did not love reading.
   —Thomas Macaulay
I cannot live without books. 
   —Thomas Jefferson
When I read aloud two senses catch the idea:  
First, I see what I read.  Second, I hear it.  
Therefore, I can remember it better.   
   —Abraham Lincoln
Either write something worth reading or do 
something worth writing. —Ben Franklin
Reading should not be 
presented to children 
as a chore, a duty.  
It should be offered 
as a gift. 
—Kate DiCamillo
Thoughts & Quotes