Barbara Cooney Quotes

#1. watering holes had been packed for hours, with revelers throwing back shots of whiskey, hot toddies, and eggnog as they prepared to brave the cold for the traditional outdoor countdown. It seemed as if every city resident, young and old,

Tyler Anbinder

#2. She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

Barbara Cooney

#3. If you wish it.
Slightly: If you wish it?
Peter: IF YOU WISH IT.

J.M. Barrie

#4. Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

Richard Widmark

#5. You must do something to make the world more beautiful - Ms. Rumphius

Barbara Cooney

#6. Nuts they go, macadamia they go so ballistic, whoa.

Eminem

#7. If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

Clarence Darrow

#8. Don't pay attention to the people that hate you but why they do, as that's where you find your real value and uniqueness.

Daniel Marques

#9. Everybody makes mistakes. You have to be careful when you make your mistakes. Now is not a good time to make a mistake.

Nick Markakis

#10. When I finally got to sleep I found Edmond and told him everything that happened, and he stayed with me for hours and whether I was dreaming or just borderline schizophrenic I didn't know and didn't care either. At

Meg Rosoff

#11. Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Philip Sidney

#12. I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting ... . I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.

Barbara Cooney

#13. 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

Barbara Cooney

#14. My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.

Barbara Cooney

#15. Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

William J.H. Boetcker

#16. The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.

Dallin H. Oaks