Basil E Frankweiler Quotes

#1. After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

E.L. Konigsburg

#2. Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion
and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder ...

Diana Gabaldon

#3. In every department of life
in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections
we thank God that we are not like our fathers.

James Anthony Froude

#4. Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

Amit Ray

#5. Remember that there was at least one person who thought Einstein was a colossal dick.

Kelly Williams Brown

#6. Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

Indra Devi

#7. When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).

Tony Evans