Children S Stories Quotes

“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness… The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They’re embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we’re even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won’t supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it.”
― Philip Pullman

“It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do
your best. That will make you special, too!”
― Jeff Hutchins, Denton the Dragon in Tales of Bubbleland

“What do you know of the Knights?” he asked.

Fin shrugged. “I thought knights were only in children’s stories until a few days ago.”

Jeannot smiled. “A man could do worse than to live in the stories of a child. There is, perhaps, no better remembrance.”

“Until the child grows up and finds out the stories aren’t true. You might be knights, but I don’t see any shining armor,” Fin said.

Jeannot stopped near the gate of the auberge and faced her. “Each time a story is told, the details and accuracies and facts are winnowed away until all that remains is the heart of the tale. If there is truth at the heart of it, a tale may live forever. As a knight, there is no dragon to slay, no maiden to rescue, and no miraculous grail to uncover. A knight seeks the truth beneath these things, seeks the heart. We call this the corso. The path set before us. The race we must run.”
― A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green

“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it. Mark Twain”
― Toni Bunnell, The Room Between the Floorboards

“(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

“Cabrina’s heart expanded with hope. Something in her dad’s eyes held a light that made her feel he was on her side.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Long ago in the wooded hills of northern Europe. there was a tiny kingdom called Color Wood. It was one of the most beautiful places in all of the world. The trees in the country side were gifted with colors that no other forest in the world possessed. There were purple trees, orange trees, bright blue trees, red trees and yellow trees.”
― Glen Liset, The King Who Lost His Colors

“Each morning when the sun came up the
song birds would awaken the king. After a royal breakfast he would spend a few hours walking through the colorful woods watching the birds and listening to their songs. He would stroll past the blue stream and greet the happy people of his kingdom. After watching the beavers and otters play he would head back to his castle smiling from ear to ear. When King Daniel was happy everyone in the kingdom was happy.”
― Glen Liset, The King Who Lost His Colors

“Early one spring morning as the king was taking his walk through his beautiful forest the wind started to pick up and it started to rain. The birds began to flutter and chirp loudly and the trees started to sway in the wind. King Daniel decided to return to his
castle until the weather got better. As time passed the weather got worse. The winds got stronger and the rain got heavier. Bolts of lightning crackled in the sky followed by booming claps of thunder.”
― Glen Liset, The King Who Lost His Colors