Children Literacy Quotes

#1. Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

David Halberstam

#2. I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.

Sugata Mitra

#3. We've done several concerts to promote literacy.. anywhere from children in Africa to children in St. George. It's definitely something that we have always been supportive of.

Justin Smith

#4. I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team ... that's throwing the game.

Pete Rose

#5. Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. Good literacy skills can help children:

-Be healthy and safe.
-Do their homework to their best ability.
-Get and keep a job one day.
-Eventually participate in local committees or government

Soraya Diase Coffelt

#7. Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

Gaylord Nelson

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

Donatella Versace

#11. A kiss before he went to murder.
Poetic. Or plain terrifying.

V. Theia

#12. Me, Billy Crystal and John Goodman hang out non-stop, and all we do is silly voices. We hang out in a little closet and do voices together.

Bobby Moynihan

#13. If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

Danny Glover

#14. A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.

Hugh Mackay

#17. She looked at Woolf. "There's some kind of ... thing."
"That sentence wasn't as helpful as you probably intended it to be," said Marcus.

Dan Wells

#18. There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.

Richard Mitchell

#19. Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Mitch Hedberg

#20. The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man, reading is most sacred, For from words come dreams and from dreams come great tomorrows.

Stephen Cosgrove

#21. 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

#22. Children who are readers will develop acceptable levels of literacy.

Stephen D. Krashen

#23. In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

Michael Jai White

#24. 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

#25. I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

Bat For Lashes

#26. Sometimes you have no idea what you are you doing, but you just do it anyways. And that can be a good thing

Anita Babic

#27. Amazing the things you find when you bother to search for them

Sacagawea

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

Los Angeles Times

#29. 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

#30. We walk about under a load of memories which we long to share and
somehow never can.

George Orwell

#31. A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

Anthony Horowitz

#32. He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

Markus Zusak

#33. There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

Sachin Tendulkar

#34. I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

Jenna Bush

#35. There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Amartya Sen

#36. Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick.

Rumi

#37. You can't catch somebody doing something when they're not hiding.

Emily M. Danforth

#38. You know when you meet someone so smart and cool that all their tastes and opinions seem like the correct ones? And you instantly think: those are my opinions now too!

Mindy Kaling