Christian Scott Quotes

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset.

I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

I came from a home where everybody had a book.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

I'd always been a big reader. I credit my mom for giving me my love of reading.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

I don't come from an intellectual family.

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.

I was a reader as a child, believe it or not.

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.