Who Said It?
Try to name the author who wrote the quote!
“A person’s a person no matter how small.”
Harry Potter
Louisa May Alcott
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Kevin Henkes, Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse
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Louise Fitzhugh, “Harriet The Spy”
Sometimes you have to lie, but to yourself you must always tell the truth.
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse
No act of kindness,
no matter how small,
is ever wastedted.
Andrea Beaty, Iggy Peck Architect
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Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons
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Stephen King
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Dr Seuss - Oh, the Places You’ll Go
~ Maurice Sendak
Where the Wild Things Are
“There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.”
~ The Wishing Tree by William Faulker
“If you are kind to helpless things,
you don’t need a Wishing Tree to make things come true.”
~ The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
“Here is my secret. It is very simple:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Oh The Place You’ll Go, Dr. Seuss
Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter
Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall."
Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."
Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me ... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”-
Peter Pan - J. M Barrie
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Wonderful World of Oz L. Frank Baum
Charlotte’s Web - E. B. White
The Jungle Book - R. Kipling
“Mark my trail...”
Because of Winn Dixie - Kate Di Camillo
Mary Poppins - J. Travers
From A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
"Like and equal are not the same at all."
“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”
From A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
“If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.”
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
“‘I wish that I could give you something… but I have nothing left. I am an old stump. I am sorry…’
‘I don’t need very much now,’ said the boy, ‘just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.’
‘Well,” said the tree, straightening herself up as much as she could. ‘Well, an old stump is a good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.’
And the boy did.
And the tree was happy.”
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
“Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.”
The Giver by Lois Lowry
“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
“At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.”
The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
“But dying’s part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can’t pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that’s the blessing.”
“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines
Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines
In two straight lines they broke their bread
And brushed their teeth and went to bed.
They left the house at half past nine
In two straight lines in rain or shine-
The smallest one was ………………...”
“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day."
"Good."
"They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth.
The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
The Miracle Worker by W. Gibson
“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
“They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.”
A Journey to the Center of the Earth J, Verne
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
“I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got too big for his body' ”
The Mysterious Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle
“But there was something in the ice-cold reasoning of Holmes which made it impossible to shrink from any adventure which he might recommend. One knew that thus, and only thus, could a solution be found. I clasped his hand in silence, and the die was cast.”
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
“He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center."
Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.”
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
“The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.”
“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.”
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
“Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
“If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.”
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.”
Seedfolks, Fleischman
“You can't see Canada across Lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland. Snow in April always breaks your heart.”
O Pioneers!, W. Cather
“The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence.
“We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.”
“How old are you Johnny" she asked.
Sixteen."
And what's that-a boy or a man?"
He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.”
The Road Not Taken, Frost
...So I took the road less traveled by and that has made all the difference.”
Love That Dog by Walter Dean Meyers
“Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book."