Golden days Quote by Strickland Gillilan

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

— Matt Prior

“At some point in his development, you can bet that every son will wage war against his mother. Some boys wage war at age…

— Meg Meeker Md

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.

— Strickland Gillilan

“My mother, who has read all of Balzac and quotes Flaubert at every dinner, is living proof every day of how education is a…

— Muriel Barbery

My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books. And my…

— Maya Wiley

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

— Maisie Williams

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love…

— Dorothy Hamill

With reading, I was very lucky. I had a mother who read to me, not because she had time - she was a busy…

— Michael Morpurgo

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

— Beverly Cleary

My mother read me biblical stories at night.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“[M]y mother read a horror novel every night. She had read every one in the library. When birthdays and Christmas would come, I would…

— Dave Eggers

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent…

— Masiela Lusha

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a…

— Wyck Godfrey