Quotes about Literacy
Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
— Sean Covey
And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.
— Barack Obama
The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.
— Stephen Covey
Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.
— Joseph Addison
If you get health, then you have opportunity for literacy. Health first, then literacy. Once you have literacy, then you have a chance to bring in the new tools of communication. Let people reach out and have access to the latest advances.
— Bill Gates
I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.
— Maya Angelou
The doors of the world are open to dose who can read.
— Ben Carson
if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.
— Ben Carson
We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.
— Billy Graham
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
— Booker T. Washington
In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading.
— Booker T. Washington
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
— AA Milne