Allington 4 Quotes & Sayings

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our". — Steve Maraboli

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined. — Milos Forman

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington

See," she's saying. "I told you, Heather. You're too nice to win. Too weak. Not in good enough shape. Because size twelveis fat. Oh, I know what you're going to say. It's the size of the average American woman. But guess what? The average American woman is fat, Heather.'[ ... ]
It takes me a while to realize that the breathing isn't my own. When I'm finally able to see, I look up, and see Rachel laying at my feet, blood pouring out of an indentation on the side of her head and tingeing the rain puddles all around her pink.And standing before me, a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stares down at Rachel's prone body.Mrs. Allington shakes her head.
"I'm a size twelve," she says. — Meg Cabot

Graveyards exist because death exists? No! Graveyards exist because we want to know precisely the place of our dead! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Kids not only need to read a lot but they need lots of books they can read right at their fingertips.They also need access to books that entice them, attract them to reading. Schools ... can make it easy and unrisky for children to take books home for the evening or weekend by worrying less about losing books to children and more about losing children to illiteracy. — Richard Allington

Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word. — Richard Allington

Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people who are somewhat cut off from the life of the Church and who have no special understanding of faith. All that is required is to 'illuminate' these actions and 'purify' this tradition so that it may become part of the life of the Church today. — Pope Benedict XVI

Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students — Richard L. Allington

A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it. — Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway Of Allington

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more. — James Surowiecki

I took one look at it and demanded that he name three things he isn't good at.
"Roller skating, singing, and talking to girls."
"You left out stalking," I told him as he helped me out of the bed. "I can always tell when you're lurking around corners."
"You only asked for three. — Rick Yancey

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head. — David Finch