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Children Quotes by Mem Fox
- If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every…
- The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
- Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and…
- Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re…
- I have very little patience with children.
- Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their…
- If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or…
- I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.
- I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.
- When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
- The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon