Telling Stories To Children Quotes

#1. The truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?

Michael Chabon

#2. Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.

Freedy Johnston

#3. I think I always knew I would be a writer some day, but it wasn't until I was grown and had children of my own that I turned to telling Native American stories.

Joseph Bruchac

#4. I'm just short for my weight. By rights I should measure eight foot three.

Sue Margolis

#5. My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a month? I don't know. It sounds about right to me. (Almost all the specific advice in parenting books is similarly arbitrary. At least I admit it.)

Alfie Kohn

#6. My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

Mike Berenstain

#7. I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

Robert Munsch

#8. Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.

Ann Richards

#9. The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

Saint Augustine

#10. He was a good storyteller, but he told the kind of stories that made children run away from the village and adults look for a length of rope and some soap.

Sorin Suciu

#11. Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

Maria Augusta Von Trapp

#12. And gain is gain, however small.

Robert Browning

#13. In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.

Drexel Deal

#14. When I was younger, I didn't know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.

James Franco

#15. I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

Kurt Rambis

#16. When you hide another story in a story, that's the story I am telling the children.

Maurice Sendak

#17. All answers that you seek can only be found within.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.

Amit Ray

#19. We know when we use the full talents of our population we're more productive. And we know that when people really feel like they can have flexible lives, they're better employees.

Sheryl Sandberg

#20. When it comes to telling children stories, they don't need simple language. They need beautiful language.

Philip Pullman

#21. I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.

Georgie Henley

#22. I think that stories, and the telling of stories, are the foundations of human communication and understanding. If children all over the country are watching films, asking questions and telling their stories, then the world will eventually be a better place.

Beeban Kidron

#23. So I pulled back from everything and everyone I'd known ... I realized I'd been changing even before we started moving,that my reinvention began when I was still in the most familiar of places. Once the setting was totally new,though, I finally could be,as well.

Sarah Dessen

#24. You don't become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.

Charles M. Blow