#aloud

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#days #even #evening #father #many

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#books #chance #could #down #get

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#aloud #beings #cannot #doctrine #ethical

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#both #conscious #ear #head #how

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#aloud #always #our #prayer #proud

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ↗

— Garson Kanin

#books #future #hear #higher #men

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#aloud #consideration #inevitably #leads #life

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares. ↗

— Rosser Reeves

#advertising #aloud #cries #economics #extension

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. ↗

— Carol Shields

#certainly #chapters #every #life #read

Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories! ↗

— A.B. Guthrie

#childhood-memory #childhood-stories #dickens #interview-transcription #kipling