“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” ~Anna Quindlen
Category: Quotes
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” ~Victor Hugo
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”~ Dale Carnegie
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”~George Bernard Shaw
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” ~Emilie Buchwald
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”
~Marcel Proust
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” ~Victoria Holt
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“You cannot write for children. They’re much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”~ Maurice Sendak
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” ~ L.M. Montgomery
Quote of the Week~Professor Owl’s Book Corner
“In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child’s need for quietness is the same today as it has always been–it may even be greater–for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.” ~ Margaret Wise Brown
