Mem Fox Whoever You Are Quotes

#1. 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.

Mem Fox

#2. 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.

Mem Fox

#3. 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.

Mem Fox

#4. 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.

Mem Fox

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

Mem Fox

#6. Love lost can be found again.

Jon Jones

#7. 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.

Mem Fox

#8. Those who cannot acknowledge themselves will eventually fail.

Masashi Kishimoto

#9. 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.

Mem Fox

#10. I have very little patience with children.

Mem Fox

#11. 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.

Mem Fox

#12. 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

#13. I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person ... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

Barry Hannah

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

Mem Fox

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

Mem Fox

#16. SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Mem Fox

#18. There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lips my happiness.

Helen Keller

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

Mem Fox

#20. To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Chris LeDoux

#21. When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously.

Mark Lanegan

#22. 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.

Mem Fox

#23. 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.

Mem Fox

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

Mem Fox

#25. 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

#26. A place is only as good as the people you know in it. It's the people that make the place.

Pittacus Lore

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

Mem Fox

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

Mem Fox

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

Mem Fox

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

Mem Fox

#31. 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.

Mem Fox

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

Mem Fox

#33. 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.

Mem Fox

#34. DREAM INTERPRETATION Simplified.
Everything's either
concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream
will be something with sex.

Piet Hein

#35. Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

Ernie Banks