Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks; Tuck a child in the crook of your arm And reach for the library books. Hide the remote, Let the computer games cool, For one day your children will be off to school; Remedial? Gifted? You have the choice; Let them hear their first tales In the sound of your voice. Read in the morning; Read over noon; Read by the light of Goodnight Moon. Turn the pages together, Sitting close as you'll fit, Till a small voice beside you says, "Hey, don't quit.

Richard Peck's Popular Quotes

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

- Richard Peck

Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks;…

- Richard Peck

Anyone who thinks small towns are friendlier than big cities lives in a big city.

- Richard Peck

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

- Richard Peck

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

- Richard Peck

Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.

- Richard Peck

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

- Richard Peck

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

- Richard Peck

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer.

- Richard Peck