6 Quotes & Sayings By Lois Wyse

Lois Wyse has dedicated her forty-year career as an educator to working with adolescents, especially those moving from middle school to high school. Lois is the author of numerous award-winning books for young readers, including her latest picture book, Flop House. Her picture books are based on her personal experiences as a teacher and mother. Lois believes that beginning readers learn by making mistakes, so she writes books that encourage kids to explore the world around them Read more

She lives in Ohio with her husband, Jim, and their teenage daughter, Abby.

A good friend is a connection to life - a...
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. Lois Wyse
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So many television marriages -that playing out of lives against a background of the tube. Instead of two lives filing the room, There are their two lives and the eleven o'clock news with Constant commercial interruption. Instead of what you say and what I say. You don't laugh with me; I don't laugh with you. All the wit comes pouring out of the tube. And we laugh at it together. The more we avoid talkingthe more passive the relationship becomes. Television permits us to walk through lifewith minor speaking parts. And the more we fail to speak, the more difficult speaking becomes . Lois Wyse
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The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas. Lois Wyse
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So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love. Lois Wyse
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If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren I'd have had them first. Lois Wyse