Children's Literature Inspirational Quotes

#1. Only where children gather
is there any real chance of fun.

Mignon McLaughlin

#2. There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

R.S. Vern

#3. Good works will be recognized ultimately, but if you work for the recognizion alone, you may be in for a long wait.

Lorraine Monroe

#4. While I always thought of making sequels to movies like 'Ghayal,' the filmmakers would almost always veto the idea.

Sunny Deol

#5. I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

Anne Holm

#6. Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again.

Radhanath Swami

#7. I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say
'whom I am
constantly shocking

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#8. As night falls silently all around,
She carefully turns the last page.

Rachel Lewis

#9. Maybe I went a bit too far, but that's what people want now. There's an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature. Everyone wants to see children treated badly. So that ... well, so that when they triumph over evil we all feel lifted up. It's inspirational.

Tony Burgess

#10. My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.

Cameron Russell

#11. We may differ in the language we speak, yet we all remain children of the land.

John Okechukwu Munonye

#12. A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic!

Marcia Brown

#13. My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

Joseph Bruchac

#14. Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky.

Rachel Lewis

#15. A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story.

Rachel Lewis

#16. Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. When I listen to you, God
when I do what you ask me to,
I am like a tree
planted by a river,
a tree full of fruit
with leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

Marie-Helene Delval

#18. Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.

Jeaniene Frost