The best Quotes from Children's Books

"You really should go to school and learn to write better," said Annika. "No thanks very much," said Pippi. "I did that a whole day once and got so much learning stuffed into my head that it's still sploshing around in there."

People say "nothing is impossible", but I do nothing every day.

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left and right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became.

The beginning is always dark.

Once there was a boy. He was, let us say, something like fourteen years old; long and loose jointed and towheaded. He wasn't good for much, that boy. His chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief.

One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of the egg came a tiny and very hungry caterpillar.

And the wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Matilda: "Do you want to heat about my first day at school?"
Mrs. Wormwood: "Yuck. I'd rather eat vegetables."

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

Kasperl and Seppel soon discover that even the best-laid plans can be foiled, especially when Hotzenplotz enlists the help of his wicked magician friend Petrosilius Zackleman, a gluttonous villain with a weakness for fried potatoes.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store
What if Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.