Mem Fox Quotes
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
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Quotes to Explore
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis
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I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
Gary Bauer
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Brad Henry
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You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,' 'Huckleberry Finn,' 'Paradise Lost,' 'Henry V,' and 'My Cousin Vinny.' That doesn't mean that you can't enjoy or understand it on an emotional level, free of all allusion, which is the test of any book of fiction.
Mark Helprin
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Now we know more about it and we teach our children not to get into cars with strangers but back then it was you know people didn't really use to that mentality yet.
Boti Bliss
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I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.
Erma Bombeck
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My dad has children by four different mothers.
Alicia Vikander
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
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