Top 31 Mem Fox Quotes

#1. The ideal three stories a day are one favorite, one familiar, and one new, but the same book three times is also fine.

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#2. When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

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#3. My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

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#4. Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

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#5. I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.

Kobe Bryant

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#6. 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.

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#7. All the stories are true. Of course, what Jace means ultimately is that stories are how we make sense of the world.

Cassandra Clare

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#8. I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

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#9. I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.

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#10. The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

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#11. I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.

Greg Boyle

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#12. I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

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#13. Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.

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#14. Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

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#15. I think that my favourite animal is a baby possum, or a joey. The face of a really little joey is so divine - so, so gorgeous.

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#16. Why the fuck didn't anyone tell me that four-year-olds get woodys? I am not equipped to deal with this shit, Liz.

Tara Sivec

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#17. I have very little patience with children.

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#18. I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

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#19. My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

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#20. You're not lonely when you're teaching, you're not quiet, you're laughing most of the time, you're having a wonderful time interacting with young people. It's the best fun in the world.

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#21. Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

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#22. If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the fears and hopes of the writers you teach.

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#23. Ever heard of a demon getting sick?" Zavid
'Of humans? All the time. It's what we live for" Livia

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#24. I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

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#25. Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.

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#26. You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

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#27. 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.

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#28. DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.

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#29. Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

The Edge

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#30. As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.

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#31. I don't know why some people have children at all if they know that they can only take a few weeks off work.

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