Arnold Lobel Quotes

#1. Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.

Arnold Lobel

#2. I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

Arnold Lobel

#3. All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

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#4. It is well at any price to have peace in the home.

Agatha Christie

#5. Blah, said Toad.

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#6. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

#7. You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

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#8. With grace and gratitude, great lives evolve.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.

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#10. Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

Arnold Lobel

#11. Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

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#12. I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H.P. Lovecraft

#13. As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape
fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

Barry B. Longyear

#14. The Health and Human Services preventive services mandate forces businesses to provide the morning-after and the week-after pills in our health insurance plans.

David Green

#15. For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

Timothy Zahn

#16. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

Arnold Lobel

#18. We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

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#19. Owl felt happy as he filled his cup. It tastes a little bit salty, he said, but tear-drop tea is always very good.

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#20. There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

Jarvis Cocker

#21. Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves.

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#22. Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

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#23. The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!

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#24. Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. Winter is beautiful, but bed is better.

Arnold Lobel

#26. If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

Duop Chak Wuol