J.B. Morton Quotes

There is one right thing for the student to do, that is, to develop the habit of weighing worths, of sensing the relative values of the facts that he meets.

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way.

The best leaders have the ability to align people to their vision and motivate them to work passionately towards its fulfillment as if it were their own.

What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler's Top.

Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.

There's no crying in the rank book.

That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.

History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed, ....

There’s nothing wrong with accumulating wealth, receiving recognition for your efforts, and having some power and status--what’s wrong is when you think that’s who you are.

...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.

We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.

When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song.

Poisons are more my thing

How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.

I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark.

As if I hadn't spent a lifetime pretending to forget.

The simplest falsehoods are the strongest.

Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence.

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

Alice felt a surge of pity for them, stuck as they were within the white-hot glow of youth, when everything seemed so vital, so essential, so important.

This was the power of the story weaver, Nell realized. An ability to conjure color so that all else seemed to fade.

Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes

Mrs. Bird smiled at me as I arrived at her side. "They can surprise us, can't they, our parents? The things they got up to before we were born.""Yes, " I said. "Almost like they were real people once.

Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].

Tragedy has been described as 'the conflict between desire and possibility.' Following this definition, is The Forgotten Garden a tragedy? If so, in what way/s?

it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled.

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling

And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Mothers tend toward right on most things.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.