Top 100 Read And Write Quotes
#1. He can read and write, but he doesn't get what he's read. He's half-baked. The country is full of people like him, I'll tell you that. And we entrust our glourious parliamentary democracy
Aravind Adiga
#2. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.
H.L. Mencken
#3. When I was six and already able to read and write Polish, my uncle the curate taught me Latin. Since he had no suitable textbook, he simply used the breviary.
Wladyslaw Reymont
#4. I want to learn. I deserve to read and write. Thoughts for company, and a pen for a voice. Who is more entitled to those privileges than I?
Julie Berry
#5. There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn't necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.
Linda Leaming
#6. What had really given birth to the Romantic Movement in the history of human ideas was affluence - an increase in the number of people who had plenty enough to eat, enough education to read and write, and time to ruminate on their own personal emotions.
Anne Rice
#7. The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
Adora Svitak
#8. An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
William Labov
#9. If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
Ray Bradbury
#10. And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#11. To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right.
Eva Green
#12. I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
Stephen King
#13. The day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#14. A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.
Dolly Parton
#15. A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#16. You have spent most of the past sixteen or more years learning to read and write. People who can do those things well, as you can, are miracles and, in my opinion, entitle us to suspect that we may be civilized after all.
Kurt Vonnegut
#17. there can be no greater happiness than for a person to learn to read and write." "And
Ellin Carsta
#18. Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
Ken Robinson
#19. My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.
Isabella Rossellini
#20. I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.
Alex D. Linz
#21. Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#23. Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture.
Jessica E. Larsen
#24. You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy and the mysteries of the Faith," writes Archmaester Haereg, "but when you look into his eyes, the sea will still be there, cold and grey and cruel.
George R R Martin
#25. Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#26. So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.
John Kasich
#27. The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
Stephen King
#28. Illiteracy is dependence. By finding the courage to learn to read and write, Hanna had advanced from dependence to independence, a step towards liberation.
Bernhard Schlink
#29. I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it.
Rick Springfield
#30. I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.
Sofia Vergara
#31. I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.
Jeremy Lin
#32. MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo.
Sam Wineburg
#33. I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
Mark Twain
#34. It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.
Juan Enriquez
#35. She asked me could I read and write. I told her, Of course, and I can talk too.
Sister Souljah
#36. Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
H.G.Wells
#37. I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown.
Shandy L. Kurth
#38. You do what you were made to do. Some of us were made to read and write. Thanks be to God.
Nancy M. Malone
#39. And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
George W Truett
#40. A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
Sloan Wilson
#41. Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
Bertrand Russell
#42. If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.
Mark Twain
#43. What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.
Ralph E. Reed Jr.
#44. Read and write. That's the recipe for being a writer.
J.D. Cunegan
#45. Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#46. Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.
Oscar Wilde
#47. The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
Red Cloud
#48. In ancient societies, the law functioned as a two-edged sword; while standardizing procedure and bringing it out into the open, the law also concentrated power in those few who could read and write.
William J. Bernstein
#49. I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.
John Hope
#50. In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
Countee Cullen
#52. You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.
Charlton Laird
#53. I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.
Francis Ford Coppola
#54. When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.
Michael Sheen
#55. But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
Adriana Trigiani
#57. The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
Alberto Moravia
#58. It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.
Ernest L. Boyer
#59. So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
Faye Dunaway
#60. The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.
Anna Leonowens
#61. My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.
Joseph Bruchac
#63. I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.
Suzi Quatro
#64. You're the smartest one in the class, Aibileen," she say. "And the only way you're going to keep sharp is to read and write every day.
Kathryn Stockett
#65. Learning to think, read, and write like an American. I didn't want to just wait till I picked it up. One weekend a couple
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#66. But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.
Pankaj Mishra
#68. I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.
Darren Shan
#69. I can read and write. I went to school for six years. I just couldn't continue.
Angel Cabrera
#70. We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
Will.i.am
#71. I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
Diane Wakoski
#72. I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
Jools Holland
#73. Read and write what you like. Rinse, repeat.
Verge LeNoir
#74. Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.
Juliet Marillier
#75. I wasn't born to cook or clean,
but to read and write,
if you don't like me the way I am,
then go fly a kite.
Besa Kosova
#76. Read and write all the time. Never stop sending out your stuff. If you're constantly writing and sending stuff out, eventually someone will bite.
Meg Cabot
#77. Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were.
Hugh Mackay
#78. Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
George Bernard Shaw
#79. We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.
George W. Bush
#80. I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
Dolly Parton
#81. The compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.
Lorrie Moore
#82. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#83. I try to read and write something interesting every day.
Dave Vizard
#84. First step is to read and write but the major Education start when we are able to translate and tranform on everything we reads, get contact and spoken of.
Olawale Robyns
#85. At least forty million Americans can't read and write, according to this morning's New York Times. That is six times as many illiterates as there are people of Armenian descent anywhere! So many of them and so few of us!
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#86. Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
Ray Bradbury
#87. If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.
Billy Graham
#89. I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.
William T. Vollmann
#90. The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.
Terry Pratchett
#91. Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
Henry Petroski
#92. When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.
Adora Svitak
#93. The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
Juan Enriquez
#94. I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim.
Wilford Brimley
#95. These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.
Robert A. Heinlein
#97. To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant - inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
Daniel Dennett
#98. My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
George Bernard Shaw
#99. Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!
Prince Philip
#100. O Chid learn your ABZ's and memorize them well,
and you shall learn to talk and speak and read and write and spel
Shel Silverstein
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