Top 30 A.e Wiggin Quotes
#1. Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#2. Who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin."
" Whatever that means." He said.
" It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.
Orson Scott Card
#4. So this kid is what? A predestined Alexander? A Caesar? A Genghis? A Wiggin?" I ask. "This is slagging nonsense.
Pierce Brown
#5. Mr. Wiggin injected a kind of horror-movie element into the Christmas miracle; to the rector, every Bible story was-if properly understood-threatening.
John Irving
#6. Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#7. There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#8. She was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#9. One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#10. Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory! ...
Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most
intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see
it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#11. You honor our humble abode,' said Bean.
'I do, don't I,' said Peter with a smile.
Orson Scott Card
#12. You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?" "Oh, no!" Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, "I am just a mother,
that's all! Good night.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#13. Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?
Orson Scott Card
#14. What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Orson Scott Card
#15. No whimpering, madam! You can't have the joys of motherhood without some of its pangs! Think of your blessings, and don't be a coward! -
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#16. What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.
Orson Scott Card
#17. Never believe a rumor of my death,' said Peter. 'I have as many lives as a cat. Also as many teeth, as many claws, and the same cheery, cooperative disposition.
Orson Scott Card
#18. Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#19. You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#20. No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Orson Scott Card
#22. To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#23. Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#24. There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ...
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#26. The girl's eyes were soft and tender, and the heart within her stretched a little and grew - grew in sweetness and intuition and depth of feeling. It had looked into another heart, felt it beat, and heard it sigh; and that is how all hearts grow.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#27. If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#28. The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#29. Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
Orson Scott Card
#30. No touching Baby Jesus."
"But we're his parents!" proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.
"Mary Beth," Barb Wiggin said, "if you touch the Baby Jesus, I'm putting you in a cow costume.
John Irving
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