Quotes About Dickon

#1. Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#2. Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

Kate O'Mara

#3. Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#4. The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those I truly do trust, we'd have a council of empty chairs!

Sharon Kay Penman

#5. Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

Jessica Day George

#6. The Squire came to the side of the bed, and put his arms under Dickon, and lifted the boy - in a dead sleep all the time - and carried him out so, at the door.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#7. You seem to forget, Dickon, that we are dealing with the Spider King. Louis realized, just as you have, that it would take more to mate dog to cat than a shared lust for the English crown.

Sharon Kay Penman

#8. I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#9. So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment. When

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. There's not a man alive who doesn't know fear, Dickon. The brave man is the one who has learned to hide it, that's all

Sharon Kay Penman

#11. Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#12. I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Jim Hodges

#13. I am delighted with the book! I could spend my whole life reading it. - Catherine Morland

Jane Austen

#14. COVERT CONVERT
If you don't believe in God, then believe in the hidden camera

Kamil Ali

#15. There must be real gods
see, the painted gods
how fair!

Hilda Doolittle

#16. As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#17. It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Matthew Arnold

#18. I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.

Piers Anthony

#19. Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Horace

#20. She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#21. (This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.

Beryl Markham

#22. Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries.

Yuval Noah Harari

#23. Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous. #financialfitness

Orrin Woodward

#24. Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.

John Quincy Adams

#25. The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes,

Mark Twain

#26. The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

W. Edwards Deming

#27. His face was badly bruised and swollen and altogether painful looking, but it really brought out his eyes.

Nicole Castle

#28. Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.

Jess Bowen