Alphabet Quotes
182 Alphabet quotes by 162 unique authors
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As…
— Noy Holland
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The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.
— Marilyn Jager Adams
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Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you know that the…
— Cathleen Schine
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In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants…
— Jack Weatherford
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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up…
— Brian P. Cleary
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Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be…
— Frances Wright
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No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven neighbours, a country…
— Josip Broz Tito
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Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet,…
— Thomas Starr King
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Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of…
— Sayyid Qutb
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X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so…
— Charles Dickens
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I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
— Tre Cool
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Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a…
— Will Burtin
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When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a…
— Frederic Goudy
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can…
— Monty Roberts
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If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of…
— Harry Mulisch
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The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated.…
— Mark Forsyth
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I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet!…
— Constance Hale
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Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.
— Peter Morville
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Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read.…
— Lilian Katz
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Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the…
— Vera Nazarian
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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except…
— Winston Churchill
Who Wrote These Alphabet Quotes
162 authors contributed a total of 182 Alphabet Quotes, led by these top contributors: