35 quotes found
Children's writer · American · 1944
American children's writer (born 1944)
“Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette”
“We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.”
“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”
“This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.”
“It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thou...”
“Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight”
“You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here ...”
“Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!”
“Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]? asked a gray female pup. Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think hes scared of the raghnaid?”
“Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou.When had it all started, where will it end?We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different.Yet one.One and again.”
“I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.”
“I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equ...”
“Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. I...”
“I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.”
“Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. -...”
“Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?” asked a gray female pup. “Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he’s scared of the raghnaid?”