"Music is very nice for a party because it gives you time to eat your fill without having to make conversation."
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden, 1960.
Thoughtful Sunday
"There was no road, there were no marks on the snow but the feather-stitching tracks of birds and the blurry spots where rabbits had hopped. Deep in the still woods axes were chopping with a ringing sound."
Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1933
Thoughtful Sunday
"You've got to be able to make those daring leaps or you're nowhere," said Muskrat.
The Mouse and His Child, Russell Hoban, 1967.
Thoughtful Sunday
"As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With a sleigh full of toys--and Saint Nickolas, too."
"A Visit From Saint Nicholas," Clement Moore, 1823.
Thoughtful Sunday
"Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more."
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1926.
Thoughtful Sunday
“Think left and think right
and think low and think high.
Oh, the THINKS you can think up if only you try.”
Oh, the THINKS You can Think!, Dr. Seuss, 1975
Thoughtful Sunday
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926.
Thoughtful Sunday
"Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you - only when it doesn't."
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, 1975.
Thoughtful Sunday
"Often Katy would wish that she someday could be
Something quiet and simple like a lovely elm tree,
Or a ramshackle barn all alone on a hill
Where the noisiest thing was a squeaky windmill.
'It might become lonely,' she thought, 'way out there,
But at least there's a view with a lot of fresh air.'"
The Caboose Who Got Loose, Bill Peet, 1971.
Thoughtful Sunday
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill-- several thrills?"
Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery, 1908.
Thoughtful Sunday
"The fact that she had a nut for a head did make new ideas difficult for her mind to grasp."
Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1946.
Thoughtful Sunday
"If you go around thinking you're being cheated, life becomes very unpleasant."
Bambi's Children, Felix Salten, 1939.
Thoughtful Sunday
"If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers."
Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery, 1908
Thoughtful Sunday
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1907
Thoughtful Sunday
"You will find that the conditions at a fair will surpass your wildest dreams."
Charlotte's Web, E. B. White, 1952
Thoughtful Sunday
"And half the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward."
Uncle Wiggly's Story Book, Howard R. Garis, 1921.
Thoughtful Sunday
(storm photo by D on our trip to the gulf coast.)
"Those people are earthbound. They heap too many goods. They have not learned the trail of beauty."
Waterless Mountain, Laura Adams Armer, 1931
Thoughtful Sunday
"When I grow old, I too will live beside the sea."
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney, 1982
Thoughtful Sunday
"Surely it is cruel to cut down a very fine tree! Each dull, dead thud of the axe hurts the little green fairy that lives in its heart."
The Fairy Caravan, Beatrix Potter, 1929
Thoughtful Sunday
"Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, 1911.
