Top 23 The Third Wish By Joan Aiken Quotes
#2. You'd better take over here as temporary Mistress, Joan, he said to Professor Aiken.
Garth Nix
#3. But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.
Terry Goodkind
#4. Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
Joan Aiken
#5. Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
Joan Aiken
#6. The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.
Joan Aiken
#7. A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.
Joan Aiken
#8. All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to God. In his eyes, regardless of what I did or didn't do today, I am loved. I am His, so I am enough.
Anna White
#9. No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.
Joan Aiken
#10. Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.
Joan Aiken
#11. The first time I was privileged to meet president Mandela was during his visit to Malawi ... shortly after he was released from prison. I was amazed by his humility and his great sense of leadership ... Mandela's character has shaped my life.
Joyce Banda
#12. Since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.
Joan Aiken
#13. As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
Joan Aiken
#14. But this is your home'
'Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!
Joan Aiken
#15. I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.
Veronica Roth
#16. Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.
Joan Aiken
#17. To serve means to dedicate or devote yourself fully to a certain course and to please the person you are serving in everything
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.
Joan Aiken
#19. Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.
("Hair")
Joan Aiken
#20. I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#21. I learned a long time ago that the honest and just don't always win. Good doesn't always conquer. Sometimes the bad guys win. Sometimes they win for a very long time, because the masses are afraid to challenge them.
Anthony DiFiore
#22. Eat an apple,sing a song,
Don't touch a snake as it wriggles along.
Run for an hour, walk for a day,
Hark to the birds and heed what they say.
Joan Aiken
#23. The silence behind her was closing and thickening, and becoming coloured, like water into which a brilliant dye is being poured
Joan Aiken
