Top 77 Kathryn Lasky Quotes
#1. Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger
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#2. Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.
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#3. She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.
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#4. I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette.
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#5. 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. - Bubo
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#6. A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.
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#7. They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."
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#8. It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.
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#9. My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
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#10. No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!
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#11. The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.
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#12. Hush little owl,
You're with Twi.
I got the moves to get you by.
Big bad crows.
St. Aggie's scamps
Ain't got nothin to show the champ.
I'll pop a spiral
With a twist,
Do a three-sixty
And scatter mist
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#13. Soren had been at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree for almost a month,
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#15. I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree.
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#16. 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?
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#17. Death bears with it a stain that seeps into the hollow and fills the mind.
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#18. My own brother. My very own brother is Metal Beak and he wants to kill me.
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#19. Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
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#20. To find one's special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie's charity. - The owls of St. Aegolius
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#21. And if you can't imagine, nothing will ever happen.
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#22. Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)
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#23. Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.
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#24. Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
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#25. I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
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#26. I am like glass to him, like water, Hannah thought to herself, alone now in the music room, heart racing. He sees through me, but how? Page: 97
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#27. So in that dark and tangled night,
the chaw of chaws rose to flight,
with talons bloodied, feathers singed.
A battle won - a war begins!
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#28. I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.
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#29. This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.
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#30. Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight
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#31. 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.
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#32. When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
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#33. In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.
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#34. I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
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#35. If that animal claims not to be frightened, then that animal is a liar. The real hero is the animal who fights even though scared. That is courage. There can be no courage without fear.
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#36. We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.
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#37. I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
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#38. 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.
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#39. I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
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#40. What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
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#41. Set your wings upon the sea wind
Set your eyes upon the stream
Feel the billow of the updraft
And believe in your dream
Know the mercy of these waters
Know the safety of the sky
Hear the voices in the distance
And believe - they will not lie.
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#42. No one really does know how to have fun here at all. It is all etiquette.
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#43. We dug the asparagus, and tonight Aunt Charlotte cooked it for me herself with butter and melted cheese. I ate a whole plateful and drank half the brown jug of sweet milk. Then I had two slices of the thick coarse-grain bread that Aunt and the nuns make fresh every day.
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#44. Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.
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#45. In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.
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#46. I don't think real friends would be jealous. -Primrose
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#47. With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.
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#48. No" was most definitely Faolan's favorite word. "No" and "More milk.
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#49. Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer.
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#50. I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world.
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#51. I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
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#52. I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.
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#53. I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me!
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#55. T is not faces, not color, not appearnces that matter. - Soren
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#56. I came from a home where everybody had a book.
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#57. Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the other Snowy monarch, asked in her soft voice.
He did indeed, madam," Ezylryb replied. "Soren is a much-misunderstood owl these days. Believe me, Soren will do whatever is required in this invasion.
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#58. I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
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#59. To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
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#60. Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
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#61. I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
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#62. Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren
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#63. I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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#64. I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Young'uns!" Mrs. P. interrupted. "No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table!
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#67. I was not born for death and yet I have died a thousand times, he thought. And now I am born again for these hard times.
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#68. What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions.
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#69. Without hope it is nearly impossible to live. Hope is the air that our spirits breathe.
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#70. One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)
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#71. He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.
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#72. Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.
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#74. 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. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.
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#76. I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
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#77. 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 equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.
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