I need a quote by someone famous?

Question

I want to find the name of someone who said the following quote:

"Reading is important"

or something on those lines. Prefereable someone academic. Can anyone help?

Answer 1

Tupac Shakur " I want little homiez to see i got all this from reading"

Answer 2

"Reading is important" by John Garfield.

Some other quotes about reading and education:-

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Joseph Addison

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Education is not preparation for life,education is life itself.
John Dewey

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams

Answer 3

Hmmm....Look up Eleanor Roosevelt quotes.

In the meantime, here's my alltime favorite quote, which happens to be from a badass movie...

There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a quarter-pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.~Troy, Reality Bites


ALSO...look up Hillary Rodham Clinton and Ronald Reagan quotes I'd use Hillary Rodham Clinton Academic Quotes or Ronald Reagan Academic Quotes for my search criteria.

Answer 4

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~ Joseph Addison ~

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
~ T. S. Eliot ~

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its
creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own
brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~ Albert Einstein ~

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one
on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
~ W. Fusselman ~

I am a part of everything that I have read.
~ John Kieran ~

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
Books think for me.
~ Charles Lamb ~

Cheers:)

Answer 5

"The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than
normal "blocks" or "bites" of the printed page with each eye stop.
He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that
the most important benefit of reading is the gaining
of information, ideas, mental "picture" and entertainment-
not the fretting over words. He has come to the realization that words
in and of themselves are for the most part insignificant.
" -Wade E. Cutler

"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read." -Marilyn Jager Adams

"Thanks to Reading Connects for making me give some thought to ways of making reading important to the children." -Anita Wright

"Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." -Hazel Rochman

Answer 6

How about something bizarre like my favorite quote by Dr. Spock(A.K.A. Leonard Nimoy).

"Ancient Human Proverb: Only Nixon can go to China."

Answer 7

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Thoreau

Answer 8

The first step in learning is the discovery that there are things which we do not know. -Frank Herbert

(you can't learn a thing if you think you know everything already.)

Answer 9

"...Reading is fun! Can we start the story now?" -- Billy Maddison, played by Adam Sandler