Paula A. Sharpe

Paula A. Sharpe received her Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Wilmington University in 1996. Paula received her Elementary I Montessori training at PCTE in Princeton, New Jersey in 2002. She was a Montessori teacher for 6 years at Wilmington Montessori School before leaving in 2006 to stay home full-time to be with her two young sons. She lives in Hockessin, Delaware with her husband, George, and her two sons, Grady and Tanner.

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Maria Montessori

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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Ernest Hemingway

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Henry Miller

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.
Emily Dickinson

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.
Martin Tupper

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast.
William Shakespeare

A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell

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Paula A. Sharpe

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