Lobel Quotes

#1. Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

Arnold Lobel

#2. Winter is beautiful, but bed is better.

Arnold Lobel

#3. If you're looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine.

Max Lucado

#4. It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an unusual thing to be a fan of. That's like saying, "I love zombie movies! I just love 'em! They're my favorite!" That's more of a psychological problem than being an actual fan.

Robert Pattinson

#5. The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!

Arnold Lobel

#6. Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Arnold Lobel

#7. Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves.

Arnold Lobel

#8. Owl felt happy as he filled his cup. It tastes a little bit salty, he said, but tear-drop tea is always very good.

Arnold Lobel

#9. You are good," I say.
"No I'm not. I'm not I'm not. I'm not," she says. "I'm no good."
And then, softly to herself: "Am I?

Charles Yu

#10. We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another.

Arnold Lobel

#11. Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

Arnold Lobel

#12. The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.

Adolph Kolping

#13. Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.

Arnold Lobel

#14. Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life.The meaning of her life-likethe meaning of any life- is a maddeningly ambiguous question shrouded in uncertainty

John Green

#15. Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together.

Arnold Lobel

#16. Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad.

Arnold Lobel

#17. All our lives are forfeit, sayyidi. It is just a question of when. And I would like one more day.

Renee Ahdieh

#18. You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

Arnold Lobel

#19. Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

#20. The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

Philip Yancey

#21. Blah, said Toad.

Arnold Lobel

#22. All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.

Arnold Lobel

#23. I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.

Arnold Lobel