"We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but……" — Jim Trelease
"We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults."
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12 Quotes by Jim Trelease
Jim Trelease has 12 quotes on this site.
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The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being…
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Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice,…
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What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.
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Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those…
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Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
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You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the…
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No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must…
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Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are…
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If you don't read much, you really don't know much. You're dangerous.
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The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the…
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A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is…
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More Adults Quotes
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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