The best Quotes from Nils Holgersson

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.

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

Nothing on earth can compensate the loss of someone who loved us.

There's no safer place on earth than the arms of one's mother.

Making a gift means to give something you'd actually like to keep.

"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."

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

"Why I walked backwards?" Pippi said. "We live in a free country, don't we? Aren't you allowed to walk any way you want?"

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

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

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!

Once, a little blue fish asked for one of his shining scales, but the Rainbow Fish just laughed. "Never!" he said. After that, the other fish swam away from him. The Rainbow Fish was all alone.

The beginning is always dark.

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.

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

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

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.

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

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

I love the smell of bananas in the morning!

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.

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.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

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...

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.

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!

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

Welcome Christmas. Bring your cheer,
Cheer to all Whos, far and near.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!

I don't know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors.

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.

The Robber Hotzenplotz works hard at his job, waking early to hide in the woods and waylay new victims.

Robber Hotzenplotz held poor grandma at gunpoint with his pepper pistol and stole her coffee mill.

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