Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
Frances Hodgson BurnettSara...looked long and hard at his face.
'Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?' he said...
'No,' she answered. 'I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
Stichwörter: children-s-lit-wisdom
When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems there's not enow quarters to go around. But don't you-none o' you- think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it without hard knocks. What children learns from children, is that there's no sense grabbin' at th' whole orange-peel an' all. If you do you'll likely not get even th' pips, an' them's too bitter to eat.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTo speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
Frances Hodgson BurnettEverything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
Frances Hodgson BurnettWhat you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
Frances Hodgson BurnettI dare say you could live without me, Sara; but I couldn't live without you. I was nearly dead.
Frances Hodgson BurnettWhen I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are -- more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story -- one after the other. It is queer.
Frances Hodgson BurnettIf nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThere's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
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