James Patterson Quote

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role mode...
JAMES PATTERSON

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but th...
RICHARD LOUV

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to lik...
JAMES PATTERSON

The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN

I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to p...
PETER BRIMELOW

When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and histo...
ADAM HAMILTON

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and orange...
DENNIS MOORE

I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classr...
RAE CARSON

There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people co...
HENRY SELICK

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for governmen...
MIKE HUCKABEE

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after read...
LAURIE R. KING

It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more dec...
STELLAN SKARSGARD

In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Som...
IAN MCKELLEN

Parents should know that our schools are now one of the largest sources of unhealthy food for their ...
TOM HARKIN

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that ...
MAGDA APANOWICZ

I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools a...
CHRISETTE MICHELE

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think pare...
ALEXA VEGA

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many ...
ADAM GILES

It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's ...
DONNA SHALALA

Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just t...
ELI BROAD

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their ...
ERNEST ISTOOK

It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready f...
ALICE MCDERMOTT

It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO

Americans should understand that 50%, or something like, of the kids in inner-city schools, often po...
JAMIE DIMON

Evanescence fans aren't the popular kids in school. They aren't the cheerleaders. It's t...
AMY LEE

It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don&...
MEG ROSOFF

'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if ...
JANET EVANOVICH

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences i...
RHEA PERLMAN

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kid...
EOIN COLFER

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt ...
AARON RODGERS

A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't...
BRIAN SELZNICK

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu...
CANDICE BERGEN

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, ...
JACK MILLER

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on ma...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR

It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON

Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON

We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how ...
CHRIS PINE

We, of course, would like to see the legislature do three things. One is increase overall funding to...
LOUIS MALFARO

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA

Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, e...
BARBARA DELINSKY

I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's ...
DARREN SHAN

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Al...
JEFFREY PIERCE

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren...
CAMILLA LACKBERG

I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the res...
JACK MCBRAYER

Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace&...
RICK RIORDAN

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, pe...
JERRY GARCIA

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book....
KATHERINE PATERSON

Some schools are looking at literacy coaches. Other schools are teaching reading strategy to teacher...
ALEXA POSNY

Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. E...
M. J. ROSE

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their hig...
ANNA QUINDLEN

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to...
CODY LINLEY

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires disciplin...
JESSE KELLERMAN

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school...
LOIS CAPPS

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - the...
MARCUS BUCKINGHAM

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,...
JON SCIESZKA

As an older generation, we need to give all our young people love and the possibility of realizing t...
KENNY LEON

When there's so much freedom - financially and otherwise - smart kids get themselves into troubl...
ETHAN PECK

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their...
KRISTY SWANSON

My favorite role is mommy. I know that sounds cheesy to people who don't have kids, or there are...
VANESSA LACHEY

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them ge...
TOM REISS

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn'...
MACAULAY CULKIN

I was a librarian years ago, and I really liked reading the fun books (to kids) because the kids wou...
CHARLIE WILLIAMS

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
CHAZ BONO

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL

Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic ...
AL FELDSTEIN

Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I cou...
KATE KLISE

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for ...
JON SCIESZKA

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs....
WYNTON MARSALIS

I think it's good for parents to be supportive, to motivate, and to somewhat nudge their kids be...
DOMINIQUE DAWES

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading f...
ROD PARSLEY

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants...
TREY GOWDY

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job becaus...
AVI ARAD

I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't hav...
KEVIN HASSETT

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designe...
WENDY KOPP

You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. ...
M. J. ROSE

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them t...
TIM WISE

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development...
ZIGGY MARLEY

Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
AGNES GUND

I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get ...
D. J. COTRONA

In Cambodia, they said the problem was that the kids couldn't get to the schools or libraries, so we...
JOHN WOOD

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and th...
SOPHIE HANNAH

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place...
MICHAEL MORPURGO

I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's ...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH

Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't ha...
WENDY KOPP

It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a ...
LAURA BUSH

Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's ...
BRUCE FEILER

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it'...
LIYA KEBEDE

Any parent who tells their kids that they can't attend a school play or go to a soccer match bec...
SIMON SINEK

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

I don't like schools. And I mean, you have to call on all your friends to get them into their sc...
EYDIE GORME

Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books ar...
JEFF KINNEY

I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids wat...
MARLON WAYANS

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don'...
R. L. STINE

Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids ...
LOIS LOWRY

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get ...
IYANLA VANZANT

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

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James Patterson

The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

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