Letters

Famous quotes containing the word letters:

    “Harvey: About this Voltaire.
    Helene: What about him?
    Harvey: How’d he ever get time to do all he did?
    Helene: He lived to be old.
    Harvey: Even so, how many letters did he write?
    Helene: Oh, I don’t know exactly. Thousands.
    Harvey: I can’t remember when I even wrote one.
    Helene: You should try.
    Harvey: It’s too late. I wouldn’t know where to send it.”
    —Tom Waldman (d. 1985)

    “Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.”
    —David Elkind (20th century)

    “Two months dead, I wrestle with your name
    Whose separate letters make a paltry sum
    That is not you.”
    —Howard Moss (b. 1922)