Children Quote by E. B. White Download Open image ““[This story] would seem to be for children, but I'm not fussy who reads it.”” — E. B. White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Children Fussy Fussy Fussy Reads Story Story Children
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“By comparison he could read her like an illustrated children's story.” — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“We can’t get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the story of… — Sarah Mae Copy Share Image
“Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“if you want to convince children of the power of books, don’t tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.” — Roger Sutton Copy Share Image
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste, Share the joy of reading with all you meet. Both young and Old. Especially the children.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is only enjoyed by children is a bad… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
“Never worry about a book corrupting a child. Worry if your children are not getting ideas from books.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.” — Pradeepa Pandiyan Copy Share Image
“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image