Marilyn Jager Quotes

#1. Out of all the medical advancements in human history I'm still most in awe of that tiny little piece of toilet paper that can stop a gushing razor cut in its tracks.

Gregor Collins

#2. Just be yourself to change everything.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

Marilyn Jager Adams

#4. The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

Marilyn Jager Adams

#5. I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere ... just take me there.

Conor Oberst

#6. The only paradise is paradise lost.

Marcel Proust

#7. We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim,
And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our chins

Eyedea

#8. For the one that loved, the nightmare, it was simple. It never had been, but was all in their mind.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#9. The things that she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.

Edith Wharton

#10. Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Hilaire Belloc

#11. Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

#12. If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.

Marilyn Jager Adams

#13. I was always lonely and I am lonely still.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

David Mitchell

#15. I had glanced half down the list of

Jerome K. Jerome