Learning to read Quote by Mark E. Smith

I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be brought home…

— Rudolph Valentino

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

— Gisele Bundchen

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person…

— Hisham Matar

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her…

— Pat Conroy

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying…

— David Suzuki

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a…

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

I was a precocious reader.

— Norman Spinrad

My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do…

— Chris Abani

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

— Chuck Jones

My mother taught me to read.

— Fiona Shaw

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came…

— Henning Mankell

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

— John Towner Williams