We are delighted to reintroduce the MLS/NEA Get a Kick Out of Reading program to central Ohio families. The upcoming Winter Recess offers a fantastic opportunity to rediscover the joys of reading for pleasure and we look forward to seeing a great many participants at our home opener on April 15.
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Related Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO The Upstate of South Carolina offers a great opportunity for Food Lion and carries out our stated st... CATHY GREEN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... ANTHONY LICCIONE The Upstate of South Carolina offers a great opportunity for Food Lion LLC and carries out our state... CATHY GREEN We are delighted to be attending our 'home' show and in one of the world's largest markets for Rolls... IAN ROBERTSON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT The theme of our season launch is Meet your Orchestra and I hope that many of our patrons will take ... PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are extremely pleased to reach this agreement with Mark Fox. He has done a great job in furtherin... JOE CROWLEY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
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