Quotes About Reading Readiness

#1. The first stage of elementary reading - reading readiness - corresponds to pre-school and kindergarten experiences.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. You cannot serve God and d money. [6]

Anonymous

#3. Writing enters into us when it gives us information about ourselves we are in need of *at the time that we are reading.* How obvious the thought seems once it has been articulated! As with love, politics, or friendship: readiness is all.

Vivian Gornick

#4. Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.

Max Brooks

#5. Everything in nature tends to re-establish that perfect harmony that makes up normal life. Every force in the individual tends to preserve a perfect balance and, if it has been disturbed, it re-establishes order and harmony." (Hippocrates)

Marcus K. Walker

#6. Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is
how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

Dan Buettner

#7. The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Hugh Nibley

#9. Cookies at both of them. The cookies are probably better at Letterman though.

Jim Gaffigan

#10. You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.

Susan Vreeland

#11. My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.

Horatio Nelson

#12. If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Douglas Wilson

#13. Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Charles Fourier

#14. Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#15. Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.

Mat Johnson