"Weâ€™re suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they donâ€™t read but, actually, weâ€™re condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, â€˜Take this or youâ€™re going to die.â€™ We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional."

-- Walter Dean Myers

#Reading Quotes #Kids Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.”
“I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.”
“Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.”

Source : Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”
“I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.”
“I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I love the Premier League, I absolutely love Premier League games. Removing myself a footballer, I watch the Premier League. It's a great league, fantastic football is played in it.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.”
“It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.”

You may also like: