Jarrett J. Krosoczka famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Book #Heart #School
Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Teaching #Media #Generations
You never know when your ideas are going to come back to you.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Ideas
Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Morning #Artist #Design
I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Nice #Drawing #Grandparent
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Jobs #Children #Book
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Book #Writing #Kids
A child can have too many toys, but never enough books.
-- Jarrett J. Krosoczka

#Children #Book #Toys

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.
Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.
No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka famous quotes

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