"Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories."

-- Pam Allyn

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“I've had everything pierced at some point.”
“I don't go into it trying to be this or that because that completely taints and corrupts the work that you're trying to do. But, I'm thankful and that definitely was a surprise. Hopefully, I'll keep doing stuff that remains interesting and fun for the audience.”
“Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.”
“There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.”

Source : Bernard Nathanson (2013). “Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by The Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind”, p.130, Regnery Publishing
“But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.”
“I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book”
“Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.”
“In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.”

Source : James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press

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