Child Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Child Children Kids Might Parenting Parents Read Reassure Very Which Who
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I was a late bloomer when it came to reading. My parents didn't really read. Neither one of my parents went to college. I… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The thing about hitting kids is, think about if you were doing the same thing to another adult. Hitting your kid is really the… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult… — Alison Espach Copy Share Image
“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I want to make my music and be a happy woman, a good wife, a good mom and one day hopefully have a child… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows. — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
