Marguerite Henry Quotes

#1. Shakespeare didn't conceive of his tragedy in Aristotelian terms - that is, as a tragedy of the fall of a flawed great man - but rather as a collision of deeply held and irreconcilable principles, embodied in characters who are destroyed when these principles collide.

James Shapiro

#2. The wind flew. God told to wind to condense itself and out of the flurry came the horse. But with the spark of sprit the horse flew by the wind itself.

Marguerite Henry

#3. I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

#4. Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

Marguerite Henry

#5. But some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.

Marguerite Henry

#6. Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.

Marguerite Henry

#7. I walk like an ocean wave, and I sing like a storm. My voice is a force of its own, and I let it loose like a hurricane.

C.D. Reiss

#8. When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind, I will that a creature proceed from thee. Condense thyself.And the wind condensed itself, and the result was the horse.

Marguerite Henry

#9. My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.

Jane Wagner

#10. Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on. He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after man has vanished.

Marguerite Henry

#11. If you look close ... you can see that the wild critters have 'No Trespassing' signs tacked up on every pine tree.

Marguerite Henry

#12. All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

Evelyn Waugh

#13. Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. We can have pancakes.

Sara Levine