Alphabet Quotes

182 Alphabet quotes by 162 unique authors

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
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
The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness. — Marilyn Jager Adams
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. — Tre Cool
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
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
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
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
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
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
Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find. — Peter Morville
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
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
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: