Top 34 Douglas Wiggin Quotes
#1. One cannot see callers, answer the telephone, go to luncheons or dinners, visit the dentist or shoemaker, address charitable organizations in or from a bed; therefore a bed, in my experience, is simply bristling with ideas.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#2. Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#3. No whimpering, madam! You can't have the joys of motherhood without some of its pangs! Think of your blessings, and don't be a coward! -
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#4. You seem to have an uncommon knowledge of young people. May I ask if you are, or have been, a teacher?" "Oh, no!" Mrs. Carey remarked with a smile, "I am just a mother,
that's all! Good night.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#6. When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#8. Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory! ...
Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most
intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see
it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#9. Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#10. Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#11. She was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#12. There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#13. Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#15. Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#16. We'll never speak of 'last times,' Gilly, or where would any of us be? We'll always think of 'next' times. I shall trust Nancy next time, and next time and next time, and keep on trusting till I can trust her forever!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#17. It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#18. Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast,
World, you are beautifully drest!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#19. The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#20. If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#21. The girl's eyes were soft and tender, and the heart within her stretched a little and grew - grew in sweetness and intuition and depth of feeling. It had looked into another heart, felt it beat, and heard it sigh; and that is how all hearts grow.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#23. There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ...
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#24. Yes, Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always take them with me.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#25. To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can use unlesss I write them down, for Aunt Miranda always says, Keep your thoughts to yourself.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#27. Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#28. It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#29. To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#30. Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#31. If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#32. There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#33. You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#34. "And all the bars at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring set Ajar before the soul.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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