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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d886da | Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 03b312e | When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2378344 | It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a40f421 | And Dickon helped him, and the Magic--or whatever it was--so gave him strength that when the sun did slip over the edge and end the strange lovely afternoon for them there he actually stood on his two feet--laughing. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2fccf46 | I--haven't any mamma in this school." Sara saw the danger signal, and came out of her dream. She took hold of the chubby hand and pulled her close to her side with a coaxing little laugh. "I will be your mamma," she said. "We will play that you are my little girl. And Emily shall be your sister." Lottie's dimples all began to show themselves. "Shall she?" she said. "Yes," answered Sara, jumping to her feet. "Let us go and tell her. And then.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| fa94180 | That girl has been listening," she said. The culprit snatched up her brush, and scrambled to her feet. She caught at the coal box and simply scuttled out of the room like a frightened rabbit. Sara felt rather hot-tempered. "I knew she was listening," she said. "Why shouldn't she?" Lavinia tossed her head with great elegance. "Well," she remarked, "I do not know whether your mamma would like you to tell stories to servant girls, but I know .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8018949 | it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c1adf0b | My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds," she said. "And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous." "Perhaps Sara will be so rich that she will be ridiculous," giggled Jessie. "She's ridiculous without being rich," Lavinia sniffed." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f7d9dc6 | It is not just information overload; it is opinion overload. | Greg McKeown | ||
| 1f156f9 | Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 77dc157 | My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds," she said. "And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous." "Perhaps Sara will be so rich that she will be ridiculous," giggled Jessie. "She's ridiculous without being rich," Lavinia sniffed. "I believe you hate her," said Jessie. "No, I don't," snapped Lavinia. "But I don't believe in mines full of diamonds." "Well, .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 54fa783 | Two years before, a rival claimant to the throne had assassinated the then reigning king and his sons, and since then, bloody war and tumult had raged. The new king was a powerful man, and had a great following of the worst and most self-seeking of the people. Neighboring countries had interfered for their own welfare's sake, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3bb1e05 | It was really a very simple thing, after all,--it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts always and to care for others. It is a very little thing, perhaps, but it is the best thing of all. He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d6a818d | Non, monsieur. Je n'ai pas le canif de mon oncle.'" That" -- | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 423af05 | Cuando sale el sol en Yorkshire, es la region mas soleada del mundo. Le | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8d2689f | Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for some one. She was getting on. But | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 96b1a68 | So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d023766 | One of her favorite fancies was that on "the outside", as she called it, thoughts were waiting for people to call them." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c7a9413 | Perhaps it is the key to the garden! | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c7e93dc | In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any other century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they see it can be done- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. O.. | France's Hodgson Burnett | ||
| deded21 | Imaginar es algo tan facil que cuando comienzas cuesta detenerse. Solo es cuestion de empezar.>> | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 730ed57 | Nature having made her for a giver- had not the least idea what she made meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed. If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things you of that- warm things, kind things, sweet things- help and comfort and laughter- and sometimes gay, kind laughte.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f30528e | Gente egoista e que diz isso. Chama de egoista todo mundo que nao faz o que eles querem. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b0c7af6 | So her heart was more drawn to him than before. When she was sent out at night she used sometimes to feel quite glad, because there was always a chance that the curtains of the house next door might not yet be closed and she could look into the warm room and see her adopted friend. When no one was about she used sometimes to stop, and, holding to the iron railings, wish him good night as if he could hear her. "Perhaps you can feel if you ca.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b118b6f | that the servant who stood by her bedside | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0d283d0 | If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open and so is your heart; and thought there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full and you can give things out of that- | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| accd2cf | One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let if stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 06f4cc0 | She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her. | permission subversive | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| f59f2ed | Suddenly it seemed as if he might a sort of wood fairy who might be gone when she came into the garden again. He seemed too good to be true. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2623e4f | There was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| bc7a6bd | acquaintance. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2e5e62d | I am going to," answered" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5946768 | few days after she had talked to Ben Weatherstaff, Mary stopped to notice this and wondered why it was so. She had just paused and was looking up at a long spray of ivy swinging in the wind when she saw a gleam of scarlet and heard a brilliant chirp, and there, on the top of the wall, forward perched Ben Weatherstaff's robin redbreast, tilting forward to look at her with his small head on one side. "Oh!" she cried out, "is it you--is it you.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 87c3be0 | Da quando sono nato, non ho mai preso un raffreddore. Sono sempre stato in giro per la brughiera con ogni tempo, come i conigli. La mamma dice che ho respirato troppa aria fresca, in dodici anni, per poter prendere il raffreddore. Sono robusto come il nodo di un ramo di biancospino. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f3be82c | you are going to be sent home.... I 'm glad of it but where's HOME ? | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0491769 | One of the strangest things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live for ever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender, solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and o.. | eternity living-forever | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 6cd9ad9 | I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here myself." "That" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a61ac83 | Khi nguoi ta si nhuc minh thi cach tot nhat la minh chang noi mot loi nao - cu nhin ho va suy nghi. Khi minh khong noi gian, nguoi ta biet la minh manh me hon ho boi vi minh du manh me de kiem che con gian, con ho thi khong, va ho noi nhung dieu ngo ngan ma ve sau ho chi uoc la chua tung noi ra. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d4e4582 | One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live. ...Much more surprising .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e23c42c | them, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a2ee33c | She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d99252b | EVERYTHING'S a story. You are a story--I am a story. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b890377 | disagreeable | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4db430f | But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if she had found a world all her own. | Frances Hodgson Burnett |