Certain Quote by Walter Dean Myers Download Open image “There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.” — Walter Dean Myers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Certain Community Crisis Involving Reading
The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature. — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
“These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely… — Mike Schmoker Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading… — Ann Romines Copy Share Image
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“pain is the only real emotion. Everything else can be taken away. Love,happiness,joy can always be taken away. Even old sadness can be dissipated… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“People who want to hate you can find something in you they don't like. They have a talent for doing that.” — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards,… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes everybody touches in the dark. You touch to see what you can stand to touch, what you can to feel with your fingers… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Yeah, that's funny, huh?...Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right. — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
I started out dancing on a reality TV show, but always with the intention of making my way over to film. I transitioned into… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in… — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We've all seen talented young players who get to a certain level but there comes a point where that talent will only take you… — Warren Gatland Copy Share Image
