Hugh Lofting Quotes

#1. To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn't glorify people, we must hear each other's stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Randy Alcorn

#2. Great decisions often take no more than a moment in the making.

Hugh Lofting

#3. Kings are the slaves of history. History, that is, the unconscious, swarmlike life of mankind, uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

Theodor Adorno

#5. I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

Hugh Lofting

#6. Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. But only today's. Magic could never die while the sun had the power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.

Hugh Lofting

#7. Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

David Mitchell

#8. I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.

Hugh Lofting

#9. Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.

Hugh Lofting

#10. A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you ... but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.

James Alan Gardner

#12. You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.

James Marsden

#13. This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global transitions based on the realization that the Earth cannot support nonsustainable practices anymore.

Terry Tempest Williams

#14. There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Hugh Lofting

#15. Joe's presence was a comfort but also a nagging reminder of what it meant to be accountable to someone else, how easy it was to lose myself if people weren't ever-present. He was to me what I needed from a man who wanted nothing from me.

Melissa Grunow

#16. One father is better than 100 head masters

James Patterson

#17. The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Hugh Lofting

#18. I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Hugh Lofting

#19. If I had my way ... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down ... You can see it in their eyes ...

Hugh Lofting

#20. Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry.

Hugh Lofting

#21. In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

Gary Kemp

#22. In God we trust; all others bring data.

W. Edwards Deming

#23. You stupid piece of warm bacon.

Hugh Lofting

#24. Dear me, what an unsatisfactory world it was! When one did find a nice kind of life something or somebody always seemed to shove you out of it just as you were beginning to enjoy it.

Hugh Lofting