Pam Allyn Quotes

#1. Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.

Pam Allyn

#2. I don't want to survive, I want to live.

Solomon Northup

#3. The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

Pam Allyn

#5. Children live in a way that is very generous. They learn from a young age what you value; they watch your every move. If you value writing, they will learn quickly to value it too, as something they can give to someone, or receive with pleasure from someone else.

Pam Allyn

#6. Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

John Gielgud

#7. But who will bang on their doors demanding entry?

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and have children, or whatever. That's it. They don't ever go beyond that. That's not what life is.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#9. If you accept the position of governor, part of your job is to make sure all your people have a decent shot at making something good out of their lives.

Timothy Zahn

#10. Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

Pam Allyn

#11. Reading for pleasure isn't separate from learning to read.

Pam Allyn

#12. I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

Stephen Lewis