Reading Ability Quotes

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

I know what not being able to read can do to a child's confidence.

I have not the advantage of a classical education, and no man should, in my judgement, accept a degree he cannot read.

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.

I'm a slow reader.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

Reading from cover to cover - I'm not a great reader.

I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people who are even capable of reading for four hours at a stretch, because it's such a bizarre thing for them to do. I am mourning this.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

George W. Bush was a little sub literate.

I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

I can read in red. I can read in blue. I can read in pickle color too.