Richard Scarry famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.
-- Richard Scarry

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It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
-- Richard Scarry

#Children #Helping #Language
There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.
-- Richard Scarry

#Children #Book #Writing
Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.
-- Richard Scarry

#Children #Book #Artist
Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.
-- Richard Scarry

#Children #Book #People
Everything has an educational value if you look for it. But it's the fun I want to get across.
-- Richard Scarry

#Fun #Educational #Want
Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.
-- Richard Scarry

#Vacation #Airports #People

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read â€” I like to buy.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.
The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

Richard Scarry famous quotes

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