While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my…

“Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example:   Rockabye, Baby, on the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and child is so important and…

— Mary Engelbreit

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me…

— Beverly Cleary

“My mother, who has read all of Balzac and quotes Flaubert at every dinner, is living proof every day of how education is a…

— Muriel Barbery

My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my…

— Maya Wiley

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

— Maisie Williams

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love…

— Dorothy Hamill

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy…

— Michael Morpurgo

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

— Beverly Cleary

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would…

— Dave Eggers

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

— Strickland Gillilan

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a…

— Wyck Godfrey

“I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; "Blackbirds" stowed in…

— Strickland Gillilan