Child Literacy Quotes

#1. SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.

Ron Brackin

#2. You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

Alain Prost

#3. Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

Irina Bokova

#4. The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn't achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who's reading aloud - it's the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

Mem Fox

#5. There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.

Frank Serafini

#6. We have to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Bill Drayton

#7. No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Los Angeles Times

#8. You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

George W. Bush

#9. Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

Pam Allyn

#10. All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Everyone was literate as a matter of course. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that. It was there to read, and we read.

Katherine Ann Porter

#11. First you say I am a murderer - an agent in league against you - and now I am a deluded heartsick girl! Pray make up your mind so I can scoff at you with precision!

Gordon Dahlquist

#12. Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

Hugh Mackay

#13. To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carlos Castaneda

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Teresa Garland Mot Otr

#15. The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

John Dryden

#16. Growing Literacy of the Heart and Mind Cultivates the Landscape of a Child's Future.

Clyde Heath

#17. Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Julia Cameron

#18. It's our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child's life.

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#19. Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight.

Mem Fox

#20. Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultimate respect for your expression of who you are at your very core.

Julieanne O'Connor

#21. What will happen will happen, what won't happen won't happen.

Jim Harbaugh