Kate Greenaway Quotes

#1. I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#2. Life was a storm to wander through.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#3. The productions of the mind and hand seem very numerous in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known, not in the number of axioms. VIII

Francis Bacon

#4. Do not mistake your ignorance or lack of skills for cowardice. It is a wise man that acknowledges his limitations.

Kel Kade

#5. Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

Kate Greenaway

#6. Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

Kate Greenaway

#7. How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Kate Greenaway

#8. A woman once said to me, 'Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,' - and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman's wife.

Kate Greenaway

#9. One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

Ann Landers

#10. To improve the world start by improving yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.

Clare Eames

#12. Marjoram ... Blushes.

Kate Greenaway

#13. Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

Kate Greenaway

#14. Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

Edward De Bono

#15. The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

Pliny The Elder

#16. I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report.

Charles A. Dana

#17. God cannot be with everyone. Not everyone is right.

Laura Bickle

#18. Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.

Samuel Johnson

#19. Every director is completely different.

Miranda Otto

#20. I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

Kate Greenaway