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Reading is regarded as the most popular hobby<\/strong> known to man.<\/p>\n

And for kids, books can open their minds and prepare them to be great adults. However, it\u2019s the responsibility of parents to encourage their kids to read books and enjoy doing it.<\/p>\n

So here are some inspirational reading quotes for kids from world leaders, great authors, respected journalists, and world-renowned celebrities to help give your child a nudge.<\/p>\n

Read them with your kids and watch them fall in love more with the art of reading.<\/p>\n

Have fun with these reading quotes.<\/p>\n

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Inspirational Quotes about Reading for Kids<\/h2>\n

1. \u201cIf you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.\u201d \u2013 Roald Dahl.<\/p>\n

2. \u201cA child who reads will be an adult who thinks.\u201d \u2013 Unknown.<\/p>\n

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3. \u201cFrom your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.\u201d \u2013 Helen Hayes.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cI think we dream so we don\u2019t have to be apart for so long. If we\u2019re in each other\u2019s dreams, we can be together all the time.\u201d \u2013 Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne.<\/p>\n

5. \u201cA book is a gift you can open again and again.\u201d \u2013 Garrison Keillor.<\/p>\n

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6. \u201cThere\u2019s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.\u201d \u2013 J.K. Rowling.<\/p>\n

7. \u201cThe more you read, the more thing you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you\u2019ll go.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n

8. \u201cMy alma mater was books, a good library \u2026 I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.\u201d \u2013 Malcolm X.<\/p>\n

9. “When I say to a parent, ‘read to a child’, I don’t want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.” \u2013 Mem Fox.<\/p>\n

10. \u201cKids will remember the books you read, not the stuff you bought them. Kids outgrow stuff, they never outgrow adventures.\u201d \u2013 Unknown.<\/p>\n

11. \u201cHe that loves reading has everything within his reach.\u201d \u2013 William Godwin.<\/p>\n

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12. \u201cReading is a discount ticket to everywhere.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Mary Schmich.<\/p>\n

13. \u201cI have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn\u2019t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.\u201d \u2013 Roald Dahl.<\/p>\n

14. \u201cFew things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.\u201d \u2013 Carlos Ruiz Zafon.<\/p>\n

15. \u201cYou can travel the world and never leave your chair when you read a book.\u201d \u2013 Sherry K. Plummer.<\/p>\n

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16. \u201cWhat an astonishing thing a book is. It\u2019s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it, and you\u2019re inside the mind of another person\u2026\u201d \u2013 Carl Sagan.<\/p>\n

17. \u201cBeware of the person of one book.\u201d \u2013 Thomas Aquinas.<\/p>\n

18. \u201cIn the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.\u201d \u2013 Mortimer J. Adler.<\/p>\n

19. \u201cReading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)\u201d \u2013 Neil Gaiman.<\/p>\n

20. \u201cI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.\u201d \u2013 Jorge Luis Borges.<\/p>\n

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21. \u201cMan reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one\u2019s hand.\u201d – Ezra Pound.<\/p>\n

22. \u201cWhen I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.\u201d \u2013 Margaret Walker.<\/p>\n

23. \u201cTo read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.\u201d \u2013 Chinese Proverb.<\/p>\n

24. \u201cYou can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n

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25. “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” \u2013 Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n

26. \u201cLet children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won\u2019t have as much censorship because we won\u2019t have as much fear.\u201d \u2013 Judy Blume.<\/p>\n

27. \u201cThink before you speak. Read before you think.\u201d – Fran Lebowitz.<\/p>\n

28. \u201cNever trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.\u201d \u2013 Lemony Snicket.<\/p>\n

29. \u201cSome books leave us free and some books make us free.\u201d – Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/p>\n

30. \u201cThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you\u2019ll go.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Seuss.<\/p>\n

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31. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” \u2013 Margaret Fuller.<\/p>\n

32. \u201cThe books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.\u201d \u2013 Roald Dahl, Matilda.<\/p>\n

33. \u201cChildren are made readers on the laps of their parents.\u201d \u2013 Emilie Buchwald.<\/p>\n

34. \u201cWhen I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.\u201d \u2013 Jules Renard.<\/p>\n

35. \u201cComics are a gateway drug to literacy.\u201d \u2013 Art Spiegelman.<\/p>\n

36. \u201cBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.\u201d \u2013 James Russell Lowell.<\/p>\n

37. \u201cThe dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul: books.\u201d \u2013 Emily Dickinson.<\/p>\n

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38. \u201cYou are never alone when you are lost in the magic of a book.\u201d \u2013 Marie Lu.<\/p>\n

39. \u201cReading one book is like eating one potato chip.\u201d \u2013 Diane Duane.<\/p>\n

40. \u201cIf you don\u2019t like to read, you haven\u2019t found the right book\u201d \u2013 J.K. Rowling.<\/p>\n

41. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.\u201d – Ray Bradbury.<\/p>\n

42. \u201cThere is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.\u201d \u2013 Frank Serafini.<\/p>\n

43. \u201cReading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.\u201d \u2013 Edmund Burke.<\/p>\n

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44. \u201cWhen I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf \u2019cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.\u201d \u2013 Neil Gaiman.<\/p>\n

45. \u201cThere are many little ways to enlarge your child\u2019s world. Love of books is the best of all.\u201d – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.<\/p>\n

46. \u201cTo learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.\u201d \u2013 Victor Hugo, Les Miserables.<\/p>\n

47. \u201cI find television very educating.\u00a0 Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.\u201d \u2013 Groucho Marx.<\/p>\n

48. \u201cRead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.\u201d \u2013 Henry David Thoreau.<\/p>\n

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49. \u201cWear the old coat and buy the new book.\u201d \u2013 Austin Phelps.<\/p>\n

50. \u201cBooks to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I\u2019ll have a long beard by the time I read them.\u201d \u2013 Arnold Lobel.<\/p>\n

51. \u201cThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.\u201d \u2013 Descartes.<\/p>\n

52. \u201cOne book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.\u201d \u2013 Malala Yousafzai.<\/p>\n

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53. \u201cSome books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.\u201d \u2013 Cornelia Funke.<\/p>\n

54. \u201cSo please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.\u201d \u2014 Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.<\/p>\n

55. \u201cBooks can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled \u201cThis could change your life.\u201d \u2013 Helen Exley.<\/p>\n

56. \u201cBooks make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.\u201d \u2013 Neil Gaiman.<\/p>\n

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57. \u201cBooks hold a magical appeal for children that goes far beyond the stories they contain.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Marion Blank.<\/p>\n

58. \u201cWhen I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.\u201d \u2013 Maya Angelou.<\/p>\n

59. \u201cYou may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be \u2014 I had a mother who read to me.\u201d \u2013 Strickland Gillilan.<\/p>\n

60. \u201cA book, too, can be a star, \u2018explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,\u2019 a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.\u201d \u2013 Madeleine L\u2019Engle.<\/p>\n

61. \u201cIf we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.\u201d \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/p>\n

62. \u201cOne glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.\u201d \u2013 Carl Sagan.<\/p>\n

63. \u201cBook are the quietest of friends. They are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.\u201d \u2013 Charles W. Eliot.<\/p>\n

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64. “The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can\u2019t.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain.<\/p>\n

65. \u201cThere are many little ways to enlarge your child\u2019s world. Love of books is the best of all.\u201d \u2013 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.<\/p>\n

66. \u201cYou know you\u2019ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.\u201d \u2013 Paul Sweeney.<\/p>\n

67. \u201cIf you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.\u201d \u2013 Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n

68. \u201cBooks are a uniquely portable magic.\u201d \u2013 Stephen King.<\/p>\n

69. \u201cReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.\u201d \u2013 Sir Richard Steele.<\/p>\n

70. \u201cIn books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.\u201d \u2013 Anna Quindlen.<\/p>\n

71. \u201cA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom\u201d \u2013 Robert Frost.<\/p>\n

72. “Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.” \u2013 Joseph Addison.<\/p>\n

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73. \u201c’Classic\u2019 \u2013 a book which people praise and don\u2019t read.\u201d \u2013 Mark Twain.<\/p>\n

74. \u201cOh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!\u201d \u2014 Betty Smith.<\/p>\n

75. \u201cThere are worse crimes than burning books.\u00a0 One of them is not reading them.\u201d \u2013 Ray Bradbury.<\/p>\n

76. “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.” \u2013 Stephen King.<\/p>\n

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77. \u201cReading is a passport to countless adventures.\u201d \u2013 Mary Pope Osbourne.<\/p>\n

78. \u201cA book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.\u201d \u2013 Charles Baudelaire.<\/p>\n

79. \u201cReading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.\u201d \u2014 Kate DiCamillo (author of The Tale of Despereaux).<\/p>\n

80. \u201cThere is no substitute for books in the life of a child.\u201d \u2013 May Ellen Chase.<\/p>\n

Reading Quotes for Kids by Celebrities<\/h2>\n

81. \u201cBooks train your imagination to think big.\u201d \u2013 Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n

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82. \u201cSome women have a weakness for shoes. I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.\u201d \u2013 Oprah Winfrey.<\/p>\n

83. \u201cThere is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.\u201d – Walt Disney.<\/p>\n

Reading Quotes for Kids by Political Leaders<\/h2>\n

84. \u201cI am part of everything that I have ever read.\u201d \u2013 Theodore Roosevelt.<\/p>\n

85. \u201cReading is the gateway for children that makes all other learning possible.\u201d \u2013 Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

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86. \u201cIt is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.\u201d \u2013 S.I. Hayakawa.<\/p>\n

87. \u201cThe things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who\u2019ll get me a book I [haven\u2019t] read.\u201d \u2013 Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n

88. \u201cAt the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It\u2019s an enormous force for good.\u201d \u2013 Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

89. “I had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” \u2013 Bill Gates.<\/p>\n

90. \u201cOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.\u201d \u2014 Frederick Douglass.<\/p>\n

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91. \u201cLiteracy is a bridge from misery to hope.\u201d \u2013 Kofi Annan.<\/p>\n

92. \u201cI cannot live without books.\u201d \u2013 Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019ve enjoyed these reading quotes for kids, you can print them out and share them with your children.<\/p>\n

And if your child is not much of a reader, this can motivate them and ignite their passion for books.<\/p>\n

Are you a book-lover? Did we leave out any of your favorite reading quotes? Kindly share them with us.<\/p>\n

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