Children S Classics Quotes

#1. I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

Pat Barker

#2. if you suddenly have the ability to walk through walls, you're dead. You're not lying somewhere in a drainage ditch waiting to wake up. Get over it,

Darynda Jones

#3. I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

Cornelia Funke

#4. [W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle.

Louise Seaman Bechtel

#5. It won't make you feel any better, he told me, it might even make things worse for a while. But you mustn't let the sadness die inside you. You have to give it some life.

Kevin Brooks

#6. The choice you make, makes you.

John Wooden

#7. It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

Roger Zelazny

#8. When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too ... she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#9. The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

Venita VanCaspel

#10. They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children's literature of the twentieth century.

Douglas Gresham

#11. Jesus' command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.

Kester Brewin

#12. It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

Madonna Ciccone

#13. Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.

Geraldine Brooks

#14. It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne

#15. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

James Howe

#16. Supernatural gift, but it was a matter as much of his limitations as of his strengths. He could see human society in ways that most businessmen could not, because he was not very much a part of it. And consciously or not, by retiring to his floating island, he preserved this precious limitation.

Michael Lewis

#17. Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

Aesop