The best Quotes from Children's Books

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go.

He, who's not scared, has no imagination.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

"Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

"But nightshirts aren't dangerous," Pippi assured her. "They don't bite anybody except in self defense."

I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I've been.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

The landscapes underwater don't know any borders.

Give a glittering scale to each one of the other fish. You'll no longer be the most beautiful fish in the sea but you'll discover how to be happy!

"You see, Momo," he told her one day, "it's like this: Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept."
He gazed silently into space before continuing.
"And then you start to hurry," he went on. "You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it."

He pondered a while. Then he said, "You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else."
Again he paused for thought before adding, "That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be."

Human passions have mysterious ways, in children as well as grown-ups. Those affected by them can’t explain them, and those who haven’t known them have no understanding of them at all.

A mosquito is more annoying for a lion than a lion is for a mosquito.

He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and...
he was a beautiful butterfly!

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon.

That night he had a stomach ache.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

I am the Lorax, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on their way out!

When you think things are bad,
when you feel sour and blue,
when you start to get mad...
you should do what I do!
Just tell yourself, Duckie,
you're really quite lucky!
Some people are much more...
oh, ever so much more...
oh, muchly much-much more
unlucky than you!

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Step with care and great tact
And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.