Top 31 Margaret Wise Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Margaret Wise

#1. A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.

Margaret Wise Brown

#2. There seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.

Margaret Wise Brown

#3. Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush

Margaret Wise Brown

#4. Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

Margaret Wise Brown

#5. Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

Margaret Wise Brown

#6. If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to.

Margaret Wise Brown

#7. In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ...

Margaret Wise Brown

#8. Nights and days came and passed
and summer and winter
and the sun and the wind
and the rain.
and it was good to be a little island
a part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by the bright blue sea.

Margaret Wise Brown

#9. That in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.

Margaret Cavendish

#10. There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.

Margaret Wise Brown

#11. Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away".
"If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

Margaret Wise Brown

#12. I remember my mean mouth, I remember how wise I thought I was. But I was not wise then. Now I am wise.

Margaret Atwood

#13. When the groundhog casts his shadow
And the small birds sing
And the pussywillows happen
And the sun shines warm
And when the peepers peep
Then it is Spring

Margaret Wise Brown

#14. There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

Margaret Of Valois

#15. I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#16. I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

Margaret Wise Brown

#17. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

Margaret Mead

#18. I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs.

Margaret Wise Brown

#19. Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

Margaret Of Valois

#20. Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.

Margaret Wise Brown

#21. He was a funny old dog. He liked strawberries.

Margaret Wise Brown

#22. The Serpent is wise in that it lives in immediacy, without the need for the elaborate intellectual frameworks Humankind is

Margaret Atwood

#23. How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

Luanne Rice

#24. Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#25. Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.

Margaret Cavendish

#26. I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

Margaret Wise Brown