Meindert De Jong > Quotes

“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle

“Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you—for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle

“if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true”
― Meindert DeJong

“... but first to dream and then to do - isn't that the way to make a dream come true?”
― Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School

“That's the trouble with being twins - if you don't know something, you don't know it double.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School

“For sometimes when we wonder, we can make things begin to happen.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Wheel on the School

“Quite often when we can't control ourselves, just knowing that others are watching us helps our poor self-control.”
― Meindert DeJong, Far Out the Long Canal