Betty Smith Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Reading, Printed Word

• The world was hers for the reading.

  Betty Smith

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

• From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

  Betty Smith

  Lonely, Reading, World

• From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

  Betty Smith

  Lonely, Book, Reading

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

• Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Strong, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

• ...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.

  Betty Smith

  Reading, Two, Soul

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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