Top 36 Mem'ries Quotes
#1. Ere long this golden light shall pass and fade
Except all cherish'd mem'ries ye have made.
Timothy Salter
#2. The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem'ries, Picasso your dreams.
Robert Breault
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.
Mem Fox
#8. Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?"
"Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.
Maggie Osborne
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text.
Mem Fox
#15. I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
Margaret Mitchell
#16. As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
Mem Fox
#17. The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.
Alfred Bunn
#18. 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
#19. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata". (Mem.,get recipe for this also.)
Bram Stoker
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I knew I had been lonely, Mem, yet I had no understanding of my desolation until my skin was finally touched.
Peter Carey
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Thomas Moore
#26. Books don't harm kids; they arm them.
Mem Fox
#27. 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
#28. I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.
Mem Fox
#29. I have very little patience with children.
Mem Fox
#30. The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.
Mem Fox
#31. I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.
Mem Fox
#32. 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
#33. Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.
Mem Fox
#34. 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
#35. Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.
Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds
David Mitchell
#36. The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that
No, no! They can't take that away from me!
Ira Gershwin
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