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I received quite a few responses regarding favorite quotes about reading = for 4th & 5th graders. Thanks to all who helped me out! Enjoy! How about, "So many books, so little time!" "'Tis the good reader that makes the good book." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when = you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding." Stephen King V=EEta sine litter=EEs mors est. (Life without literature is death). It is one that General George Patton said... If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking" Change it = to reading the same. If you think about it, he's right. If we all think = alike, then something is wrong.. "The person who DOES NOT read is no better off than the person who CANNOT read." "A book is good company." Henry Ward Beecher I have a few gathered together at: http://www.asla.nsw.edu.au/quotes.htm Reading Quotes http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/readingquotes.htm "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from=20 one generation to another." - G. K. Chesterton "The wise man reads both books and life itself." - Lin Yu-t'ang "Educating a child is like lighting a candle. The match=20 is struck and for a moment, the match and wick burn to- gether. When the match is removed the candle glows alone." =20 - Source unknown. "What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach=20 and instruct our youth?" - Cicero Change your thoughts and you change your world."=20 - Norman Vincent Peale=20 ""IF STUDENTS ARE TO BE THE 'WORKERS' THEY ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE ENDOWED LIBRARIES AND THE TIME TO USE THEM." [Theodore Sizer] "The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not=20 show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars=20 of the world."=20 - Maya Angelou=20 "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it is = very dark." Groucho Marx "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." -- Ray Bradbury "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free" Frederick Douglass " The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." It is attributed to Mark Twain.=20 "Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they=20 are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the=20 most patient of teachers."=20 - Charles W. Eliot "The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it=20 from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to oth- ers, and it becomes the property of all." - Francois Voltaire "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better." --Wendell Phillips "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth=20 isn't." - Mark Twain "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight=20 inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to=20 bloom." =20 - Ana=EFs Nin "Walls cannot embrace a library. It is more than a place, more than books and films and records, more even than the people who make it work. Basically a library is a gathering of ideas, of information - put in order and shared. And, the sharing is the whole point of a library." Comptons Encyclopedia, 1986 "It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is=20 to use it well." - Rene Descartes "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man=20 who never does anything." - President Theodore Roosevelt "In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim." - Linton Weeks (Washington Post article, 13 January 2001, p. C01) "A LIBRARY IS...history's home and freedom's harbor, all the world's = dreams in one little room."---Michael Malone "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." - Austin Phelps "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to=20 enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the=20 threshold of your mind." - Kahlil Gibran "Inside me, there's a thin woman trying to get out. --------- But, I can usually shut the bitch up with chocolate." Dreams are necessary to life - Anais Nin "My library was dukedom large enough." - William Shakespeare This quotation is attributed to Walter Cronkite: "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that = of an ignorant nation." "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books,=20 history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,=20 thought and speculation at a standstill." - Henry David Thoreau Darcy Maxwell, LMC Director Emerson Elementary School 2101 Campbell Rd. 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