Christianna's Quotes

#1. And Nick was sure Christianna's family was upset

Danielle Steel

#2. Hold on tightly - let go lightly

Belle De Jour

#3. As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#4. Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty.

Christianna Brand

#5. In truly listening to our most painful songs, we can learn the divine art of forgiveness.

Jack Kornfield

#6. Good evening, children,' Said Nurse Matilda, and she gave a loud thump on the floor with her big black stick. 'I am Nurse Matilda.

Christianna Brand

#7. I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

Mehcad Brooks

#8. And as they spoke - lo and behold! - there was a knock at the door, and there stood a small, stout figure dressed in rusty black; and she said, 'Good evening, Mr and Mrs Brown, I am Nurse Matilda.

Christianna Brand

#9. Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Rachel Hunter

#10. The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want,' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.

Christianna Brand

#11. The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

Ethel Mumford

#12. Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

Henri Bergson