Kesha Quotes

I learned reading and writing from my mother.

All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

My mother taught me to read.

Reading taught me how to write.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

A child's first teacher is its mother.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

Writing is still on my slate.

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

I do three things: speaking or teaching, which I enjoy the most, coaching is where I learn everything, and writing is where I reach people.

I love to write. English is my favorite subject in school.

I learned a lot from my father.

As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.

My mom, Latha Sriram, is my first guru.