Reading Quotes

As long as I’m reading, I’m at home.

The Word of God isn’t for one particular season. It’s for every season. But in its specific application, it’s best read from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Patriot Act was rushed to the floor. Several hundred pages. Nobody read it … But people voted because they were fearful and people said there could be another attack and Americans will blame me if I don’t vote on this.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

Many of us have read about and talked about forgiveness, and we understand intellectually why it might benefit us to let go of anger toward others. But we hold on anyway.