“What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But as I was reading this, there were two empty seats next to me. Why can't sick kids sit there? If they're so concerned with sick kids, shouldn't they have like a pen of sick kids next to the gate?” IfsGivingTwoHumorKidsFunnyReadingNextPresidentGiving UpConcernedEmptySickMilesSeatsGatesPensAirlineFlyersEmpty SeatsSick Kids Author:David Cross
“Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He died from hi-fiveing.” HumorKidsTodaySchoolFunnyRememberReadingSexTeacherHigh SchoolDiedOnlineSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Zach Galifianakis
“The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.” WantShouldDoeKidsJoyReadingFunPleasureResponsibilityDemandAncientStorytellingAwe Author:Natalie Babbitt
“I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one.” WritingKindBookKidsReadingMy OwnGrowing UpGrowingSevenOutsiders Author:Ann Hood
“Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.” IdeasKidsReadingHouseTenPaperPagesTheaterMilesLearning To ReadRadius Author:Alonso Duralde
“With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formula is the same. They're having problems reading, having problems grasping some of the things that are being taught to them.” LittlesProblemKidsReadingTaughtCircumstancesOrganizationLike MeFormulasTime TravelLittle KidVaryGrasping Author:Malik Yusef
“As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.” FeelsWritingImportantKidsReadingTeacherMusicianMusic IsFormerReading And Writing Author:Sheryl Crow
“From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading to your kids now will repay itself a million-fold later, not only because they love you for reading to them, but also because, years later, when they’re gone and miles away, those quiet evenings, when you were tucked in with them, everything quiet but the sound of the page-turns, will, seem to you, I promise...... sacred.” YearsTwoSeemsKidsTurnsReadingParentSoundMillionsGoneWonderfulMinutesLove YouPerspectivePromiseQuietPagesSacredInstinctMilesEveningFoldsI PromiseMiles Away Author:George Saunders
“If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.” IfsKidsReadingParentReaderAssociatesGood Parent Author:Orson Scott Card
“I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting around and reading as a kid, I preferred to be outside running around and playing sports, but I was absolutely thrilled to get the role of Colossus. I don't think I realised how popular the character was until I got the role and started doing some research; it was then that I really fell in love with the character of Colossus myself.” ThinkingBookCharacterRunningKidsReadingSportsRolesFansHugeResearchSittingSeriesComicComic BookCartoonRealisedSitting AroundPlaying SportsColossus Author:Daniel Cudmore
“My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back.” YearsReasonProblemKidsAgeMotherPassionCoursesReadingFoundResponsibilitySawsStreetsHorrorTenPicksConcernCleanMissionsObsessedMy PassionPersonal ResponsibilityEnvironmentalismContributingNo Turning BackLittering Author:Laurie David
“I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.” PeopleHas BeensKidsReadingHappenedReaderLessonsReading History Author:Warren Mundine
“The first thing that jumps out in my mind is David versus Goliath. That's one of the first stories we ever learn as kids. That's one of the most inspirational stories about courage. David stood in the face of terrible odds and defeated the giant. I love reading that story to my boys. Being courageous is doing something isn't easy or fun but you do it because it's the right thing to do.” MindFirstsStoriesKidsFacesReadingFunEasyBoysTerribleThings To DoRight ThingGiantsCourageousOddsDefeatedVersusMy BoysLove Of ReadingGoliath Author:Matt Cullen
“One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.” FeelsBookCharacterShowsHappensKidsReadingAdultsCrossesComicBest ThingsGiantsComic Book Author:Andrew Kreisberg
“You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your kids, or anybody - because we're all innocent of the fact that we are the way we are. But it also means the ways that you coped, and the languages and narratives and points of view that you had no choice but to make from the sidelines - and that often carried with them really acute readings of dominant society - those no longer have the same need.” WayNeedsMeanMatterFactsKidsChoicesReadingLanguageViewsRightsGainsMajorityPrivilegePoint Of ViewInnocentNarrativeWhat MattersDominantSidelinesRights And Privileges Author:Todd Haynes