Mem Fox Quotes
The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
Mem Fox
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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I had a fantastic upbringing by two parents who cared deeply about their children but, more importantly, believed that anything was possible for their children and, in some ways, almost brainwashed us to be successful.
Kenneth Frazier
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Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be;
but be the right thing.
Burning Spear
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We must go through every area of the federal budget to isolate waste and abandoned projects.
James Lankford
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We have diverted soldiers from other organizations to fill our high-priority, war-fighting formations, ... Second, we have, for years, mortgaged our future readiness -- this modernization effort -- in order to assure that our soldiers had, in the near-term, what it takes to fight and win decisively.
Eric Shinseki
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I look a lot like my mom. I'm the only one of my siblings with red hair, and she had bright red hair. I always have felt incredibly connected to her.
Ethan Slater
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
Mem Fox
