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- We’re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don’t read but, actually, we’re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick…
- I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books.…
- When I began to read, I began to exist
- And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And…
- I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic…
- I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll…
- If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life…
- My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
- As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This…
- Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a…
- I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I…
- I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry…
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