Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.”

“What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered fact."Whywhy," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr...”

“This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school....”

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.”

“If we could only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our...”

“If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our...”

“A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”

“What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face."Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-g...”

“What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered fact."Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-g...”

“If we could only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our fa...”

“If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our fa...”