"I was the most Australian child ever in……" — Mem Fox
"I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa."
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23 Quotes by Mem Fox
Mem Fox has 23 quotes on this site.
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If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and…
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.
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Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length,…
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Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time…
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I have very little patience with children.
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Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours…
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If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer,…
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If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come…
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As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
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Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.
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I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few…
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I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.
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More Africa Quotes
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one of 1,183 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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