Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes
Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating.
It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.
Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.
There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.
You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.
It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.
It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and tell me if it isn't so.