Children Quote by Laila Lalami

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English…

— Edith Wharton

Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how they're reading.

— Michael Rosen

When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of…

— Laila Lalami

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

— Chris Van Allsburg

The founding American generations did something that almost no others have ever done. They read the fine print! They taught their children to read…

— Oliver DeMille

I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.

— Lewis H. Lapham

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

— Mariah Carey

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way…

— John Taylor Gatto

I feel very American, but my upbringing was quite the opposite.

— Xander Schauffele

I enjoyed reading as a child.

— Anonymous

I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those…

— Jon Scieszka

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

— Martin Amis