Quotes About Reading Instruction

#1. Substituting formal reading instruction for read-alouds is like showing a child how to grow flowers by providing a hoe to dig holes but neglecting to provide the seeds or to take the time to watch those seeds grow.

Steven L. Layne

#2. No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.

Anatole France

#4. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

#5. A good tree bears good fruits.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much.

Charlaine Harris

#7. Sam, I really want to buy a red coffee pot, if they exist," Grace said.
"I'll find you one

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

Oliver Goldsmith

#9. Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.

Amanda Penland

#11. You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

Paula D'Arcy

#12. Most people would fiercely resist the idea that they need any instruction in how to listen to music. Because we can hear, we think we can listen. But just because we can see, we don't assume we can read. Reading

Julian Johnson

#13. The shawl's bottom edge the clearest blue, as if it has been dipped in the sea. The blue of a glance.

Anne Michaels

#14. Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

Washington Irving

#16. We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.

Christina, Queen Of Sweden

#17. Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.

Ramona Koval

#19. I had an acting coach while I was doing the show and every week I could see my work improving. I really liked working on the show because I was learning new things every day.

Dannii Minogue

#20. By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

Jane Austen

#21. Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Henny Youngman

#22. A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

David Nicholls

#23. It is necessary to pray to Him, with a longing Heart.

Ramakrishna