Carol Ryrie Brink Quotes

#1. I have had some pretty wild nights! I think the media keeps a very close eye on what people are up to these days. I was out with George Clooney a few nights ago and we had a great time.

Tom Jones

#2. She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#3. If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

Carol Ryrie Brink

#4. The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Charles Baudelaire

#5. Life is just a lot of everyday adventures.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#6. What a lot of fun you could have if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#7. But every redhead's temper has its limitations.

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#8. It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#9. Riding around on Minnie's shoulder But

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#10. In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess - the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#11. To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#12. The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#13. For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

Aubrey O'Day

#14. The three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#15. No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#16. If there were no war, if there was peace in the world, I'd say fine, have fun! But, Montag, you mustn't go back to being just a fireman. All isn't well with the world.

Ray Bradbury

#17. Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#18. I mean, if a man's really master of his house, he doesna need to tell folks so.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#19. Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

David Hockney

#20. I remember now." I looked into his deep, dark, familiar eyes. "And I'll never forget again.

Jess Rothenberg

#21. Her rocking chair of carved wood and woven cane tilted between this world and another that was beyond imagining, wafting scents of talcum and medicinal tea, auras of lace-edged santos whose eyes rolled up to a heaven too close for comfort.

Sonia Sotomayor

#22. Although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#23. No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#24. Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now

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#25. How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#26. Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?

Carol Ryrie Brink