The best Quotes from Children's Books

Pippi Longstocking

"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

Winnie the Pooh

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

Winnie the Pooh in Christopher Robin

The Rainbow Fish

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

Marcus Pfister in The Rainbow Fish

The Neverending Story

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The beginning is always dark.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Nils Holgersson

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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.

Selma Lagerlöf in Nils Holgersson - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Where the Wild Things Are

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

Maurice Sendak in Where the Wild Things Are

The Lorax

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

Horton Hears a Who!

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

Matilda

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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Oh, the Places You'll Go

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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...

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Oh, the Places You'll Go

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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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!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The Famous Five

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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Enid Blyton in The Famous Five - Five on a Hike Together

The Robber Hotzenplotz

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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.

Otfried Preußler in The Robber Hotzenplotz

The Magician’s Elephant

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

Kate DiCamillo in The Magician’s Elephant

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

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

Kate DiCamillo in The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Tale of Despereaux

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

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

Because of Winn-Dixie

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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.

Kate DiCamillo in Because of Winn-Dixie

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel - I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

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

Erich Kästner

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

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

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

Kate DiCamillo in Because of Winn-Dixie

"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.

Kate DiCamillo in The Tale of Despereaux

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

Astrid Lindgren

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

Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

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

Winnie the Pooh in Christopher Robin

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

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

The landscapes underwater don't know any borders.

Marcus Pfister

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!

Marcus Pfister in The Rainbow Fish

"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."

Michael Ende in Momo

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.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

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

Selma Lagerlöf

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!

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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.

Eric Carle in The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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

Maurice Sendak

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Judith in Where the Wild Things Are

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel in The Lorax

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!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

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

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

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.

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Oh, the Places You'll Go

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!