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"A person's a person, no matter how small."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,285 people liked it

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

238 people liked it

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor
544 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,660 people liked it

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children
1,013 people liked it

"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. "
— Jim Henson

tags: goodness, impression
18 people liked it

"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching
169 people liked it

"I speak for the trees! Let them grow! Let them grow!"
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)

75 people liked it

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
5,388 people liked it

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

167 people liked it

"Life's like a movie, write your own ending, keep on believeing, keep on pretending"
— Kermit the Frog

tags: inspirational
36 people liked it

"Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself too seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament."
— Kermit the Frog

tags: advice, humor
61 people liked it

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,925 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,489 people liked it

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
— Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
248 people liked it

"I'd hate to have a kid like me."
— Bill Watterson (The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes)

tags: children, humor
135 people liked it

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
— Carl Sandburg

tags: children, hope, religion
116 people liked it

"Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children."
— Walt Disney Company

102 people liked it

"To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today."
— Barbara Johnson

tags: inspirational
67 people liked it

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

33 people liked it

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
— Frederick Douglass

tags: strength
63 people liked it

"'Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble.' George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget."
— H.A. Rey

tags: curiousgeorge
5 people liked it

"Simple is good."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

tags: design
14 people liked it

"Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiring for children to always be explaining things to them."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (El principito & Piloto de guerra/ The Little Prince & War Pilot)

8 people liked it

"There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met."
— Jim Henson (Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets)

tags: friends, friendship
83 people liked it

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald

tags: children, parenting, reading
57 people liked it

"Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. "
— Rick Riordan

tags: children, people, punishment, young, youth
80 people liked it

"Every child needs a champion."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

tags: children, vision
20 people liked it

"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

tags: books, child, children
16 people liked it

"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

tags: beauty, life
973 people liked it

"The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career."
— Markus Zusak

tags: books, reading
17 people liked it

"As always, one of her books was next to her."
— Markus Zusak

tags: books, reading
16 people liked it

"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams)

tags: hope, kindness, life
12 people liked it

"If I like it, it's mine.
If it's in my hand, it's mine.
If I can take it from you, it's mine.
If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.
If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
If I'm doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
If it looks just like mine, it is mine.
If I saw it first, it's mine.
If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine.
If it's broken, it's yours!
"
— Toddler Property Laws (from the bulletin board at the Sarasota Tribune)

2 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,558 people liked it

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

tags: books, bookstore, towns
334 people liked it

"Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost."
— Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake)

162 people liked it

"Libraries are our friends"
— Neil Gaiman

59 people liked it

"Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it."
— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)

17 people liked it

"My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one."
— Mo Willems

7 people liked it

"Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?"
— Mo Willems (Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale)

13 people liked it

"Home is a child's first and most important classroom."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton (It Takes a Village)

tags: educational
5 people liked it

"We are the change we have been waiting for."
— Barack Obama

tags: carpe-diem, change
177 people liked it

"Why can't I just eat my waffle?"
— Barack Obama

36 people liked it

"What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."
— Barack Obama

tags: inspirational
35 people liked it

"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
— Sam Levenson

4 people liked it

"I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.""
— Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian)

tags: computers, libraries, seniors
11 people liked it

"It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar."
— Scott Douglas

tags: books, librarians, library, please, quiet
7 people liked it

"So here is my story, may it bring
Some smiles and a tear or so,
It happened once upon a time,
Far away, and long ago,
Outside the night wind keens and wails,
Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!"
— Brian Jacques (Lord Brocktree)

tags: books, poem, poetry
22 people liked it

"It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

168 people liked it

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