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41 " Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds. "
― Richard Peck , Past Perfect, Present Tense
42 " But later when I was a teacher, an English teacher naturally, my students preferred fiction to reality. They were in junior high, and so they preferred ANYTHING to reality. "
43 " That's the way people is who ain't goin' anyplace in life theirselves. They don't want you goin' anyplace either. "
― Richard Peck , The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts
44 " Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. "
― Richard Peck
45 " Grandma saved herself a lot of bother by not being the kind of person you question. "
― Richard Peck , A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
46 " I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody;I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning myself, and I wouldn't mind a map;I read because I have friends who don't, and young though they are, they're beginning to run out of material;I read because every journey begins at the library, and it's time for me to start packing;I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready. "
― Richard Peck , Anonymously Yours
47 " Only the nonreader fears books. "
48 " I read.. because one life is not enough "
49 " We write by the light of every story we have ever read. "
50 " Read to your childrenTwenty 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 armAnd 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 talesIn the sound of your voice.Read in the morning;Read over noon;Read by the light ofGoodnight Moon.Turn the pages together,Sitting close as you'll fit,Till a small voice beside you says,"Hey, don't quit. "
51 " 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 , A Year Down Yonder (A Long Way from Chicago, #2)
52 " September 11We thought we'd outdistanced historyTold our children it was nowhere near;Even when history struck Columbine,It didn't happen here.We took down the maps in the classroom,And when they were safely furled,We told the young what they wanted to hear,That they were immune from a menacing world.But history isn't a folded-up map,Or an unread textbook tome;Now we know history's a fireman's childWaiting at home alone. "
― Richard Peck , Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young
53 " I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody. "
54 " Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school. "
55 " I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready "
56 " I read because one life isn't enough. "
57 " I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody. "
58 " I seen but little of this world,Except my corner of it;The city never drew me,For I knew I could not love it.What I loved best was watchingThe garden getting ripeAnd a pouch of sweet tobaccoAnd my old cob pipe.What I loved best was a harvest moonBefore a frosty mornAnd lamplight in the barn lotAnd them long, straight rows of corn.I was plain and country;That's where it starts and ends,But nobody loved her family more,Or treasured more her friends.I loved the changing seasons,And looking for life's reasons,And honey in the comb,and home. "
59 " Conformity is the enemy of friendship "
60 " And don’t look for anything out of the law around here,” she said. “The Cowgills and the Leapers is kin to the sheriff. No justice in these parts. It’s every man for hisself.”“But as the saying goes, if you can’t get justice,” Mrs. Dowdel remarked, “get even. "
― Richard Peck , A Season of Gifts (A Long Way from Chicago, #3)