At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. Frances Hodgson Burnett More Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett More Quotes From Frances Hodgson Burnett To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live. Frances Hodgson Burnett fever mind long My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. Frances Hodgson Burnett important mother people Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. Frances Hodgson Burnett difficult losing book When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. Frances Hodgson Burnett princess strong stupid Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them. Frances Hodgson Burnett meals fire hot One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver. Frances Hodgson Burnett purple shadow moon In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end... there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air. Frances Hodgson Burnett taken hurt heart Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick) Frances Hodgson Burnett bricks rights white The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes. Frances Hodgson Burnett real sleep children She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do. Frances Hodgson Burnett little-princess looks thinking You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy. Frances Hodgson Burnett fighting dark thinking She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head. Frances Hodgson Burnett clothes speech boys 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 Burnett children school thinking death is always sudden however long one waits. Frances Hodgson Burnett waiting long I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one. Frances Hodgson Burnett behave princess trying As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy. Frances Hodgson Burnett heathers eye blue a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. Frances Hodgson Burnett unjust enough clever The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. Frances Hodgson Burnett magic garden men People never like me and I never like people Frances Hodgson Burnett like-me people To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman Frances Hodgson Burnett speaking-french speak robins
