Caldecott Award Quotes

#1. The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.

Chris Raschka

#2. Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has both.

John Truby

#3. If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you.
You breathe it unthinking, and
dissipate it with your sighs.

Roy H. Williams

#5. A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.

Aisha Mirza

#6. Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.

Mary Randolph

#7. I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.

Andrew Krivak

#8. I used to stand at the lectern in my coat and tie, waving my glasses around, urging students to find the courage to become themselves. Then I'd go back to the office and lock the door and put my head down on the desk.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#9. I was caught up in the tempest of this woman and I was in no hurry to get myself free of her.

Jay Crownover

#10. Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Karl Popper

#11. I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

Maeve Binchy

#12. You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair? It is you that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.

Edgar Guest