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Vicki Winterlin, Library Media Specialist

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Quotes and Words of Wisdom by Authors

You can get some great words of wisdom from books - even books for young children!  Here are a few of my favorites.  If you have a favorite quote from a book, send it to me here. Be sure to include the author and the name of the book.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." 
- Dr. Seuss

"To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures ..."
 - The Little Prince,  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" ... friendship is one of the most satisfying things in the world."  
- Charlotte's Web, E. B. White



"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
 - A A Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh

"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom."
 - The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 "Stop your nonsense, Wilbur! If you have a new friend here, you are probably disturbing his rest; and the quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready."
- Charlotte's Web, E. B. White

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
 - Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game

"The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him "WILD THING!" and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!" so he was sent to bed without eating anything."
 - Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."
- Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty

"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."
 - Through the Looking Glass,  Lewis Carroll

"I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees."
- The Lorax, Dr.  Seuss

"And the tree was happy" 
- The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." 
- Dr. Seuss

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