Classic Children's Literature Quotes

#1. When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stories came from real life, from my concerns about what was happening in the world.

Michael Foreman

#2. And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

Pete Seeger

#3. A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#4. MODERN PARENTS OF TWENTY FIRST CENTURY NEEDS SPIRITUAL BRAIN WASH WITH GREAT CLASSIC LITERATURE ACROSS THE GLOBE FIRST. NATURALLY,RESULTING OUR FUTURE GLOBAL DIRECORS(INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN) WILL RE-DESGN AND RE-DRAFT LIFE DIRECTION SOFT-WARE TO UP GRADE THEIR SOULS GOD SPIRITUALITY NEXT.

Various

#5. During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.

Jean Piaget

#6. Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

Robert Shea

#7. Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

Janna Levin

#8. Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.

Thomas Sowell

#9. Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment ... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

Brian Johnson

#10. I'll do anything to make sure it's always here for me to come home to.

Rainbow Rowell

#11. Slowly it floats more and more away,

Herman Melville

#12. The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.

Shashi Tharoor

#13. my best friends. He got a kick out of being in my book.

Katherine Reay

#14. There is no college for the conscience.

Theodore Parker