Wladyslaw Reymont Quotes

The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech.

I went to Catholic school growing up. I can barely remember any prayers or anything!

My mom gave me the children stories of the Bible. I memorized that book at the age of nine.

My grandfather taught me trees and the Latin names of trees when I was five or six. His father was a forester, so he knew them all.

People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.

Reading to babies creates such a special parent-child bond and so strongly influences a child's language skills that the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that doctors and nurses routinely discuss it with parents during pediatric visits.

In India, not enough importance is given to writing for children. And what could be more important than the enrichment of young minds with great literature?

My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of the person reading aloud to me.

Something happens in school sometimes where you're like, 'Oh, I'm not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.' And it happens not just in school: it happens in religion, too. Defer to the experts. A printing press is a big deal - they got the Bible, and all of a sudden they could read it for themselves.

One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

My formative years were not spent in Hyderabad, so I can only understand Telugu, but I love the culture.

Writing, for me, really started in the '70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and I learned a lot of those rhymes word for word.

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

I'd had a strict religious education.

I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the world.

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent. People assumed I was Egyptian.

Chinmaya Mission has been a very strong part of my life since childhood. I have been associated with Chinmaya Mission since primary school days, where I was part of group singing and bhajans in the Bal Vihar classes.

It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.

I moved to New York when I was eight years old, in 1978. I grew up in Manhattan. I couldn't speak any English, and I had dyslexia, so it took me many years before I could read.

I didn't grow up reading the Bible.

My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.

I learned to sing as I was learning to talk.

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.