All Ages Quotes

“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...”
― Tim Perkins, Worlds End: Volume 1: The Riders on the Storm

“When Robert was younger he lived somewhere else. When asked, he could never say exactly where, for the simple but painful reason that the nature of his removal from his home had been so sudden and rough and frightening, and had taken such a long time to end, that by the time he found himself in his new home and dared to open his eyes, he had not the slightest idea where he was or where he had come from.”
― Steve B McGlaughlin

“Little Bobby Randall was a most unfortunate child. According to his mother, who should have known, he was just “Born wrong.”

Well, maybe.


Cindy
On the first day, his mother asked him what he learned in camp. Bobby’s answers were simple and direct, as though he was quoting his counselor at the camp:

“Bobby, please take your seat.”

“Bobby, please stop talking.”

“Don’t throw kitty in the pool”

“Well, I don’t need to tell YOU that the last thing an 11-year-old girl wants to do is help a boy with his zipper, even if he is only 6.“

“Why Mesun cry?” he asked.

“Icky is gone,” she said.

Sometimes when Bobby’s mother gave him a bath, and he was especially dirty, like the time he decided to see what dog poop would feel like if he rubbed it all over himself, she said that she was going to wash off all the icky. So, you can understand why, when Mi-Sun said “Icky is gone,” Bobby became confused.

He was smiling a big beagle smile, and if you have never seen a beagle smile, you have missed one of the great delights of this world. Beagles have large, lustrous brown eyes, and they are particularly good at making those eyes look sad, especially when they want something to eat. But when they smile it makes you feel as though your heart could leap out of your chest. Nothing on this earth brings more joy than a merry little beagle, smiling a big beagle smile and licking you. Nothing.”
― Bill Schweitzer, Anna Belle Cook and The Boy Who Talked to Dogs

“The most important step to writing or accomplishing anything is to begin. What's in your head or heart is useless to others until you express or apply it.”
― Jason Jennings, Diddle Dillup A Frog's Adventures