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Frances Hodgson Burnett quotes - page 3
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. 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 someone.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
If nature has made you 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 out of that.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
And this, my lovely child, is your garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery Mary might have learned some pretty ways too.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Do you think he wants him to die?” whispered Mary. "No, but he wishes he'd never been born. Mother she says that's th' worst thing on earth for a child. Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
You are a selfish thing!” cried Colin. "What are you?” said Mary. "Selfish people always say that. Any one is selfish who doesn't do what they want.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Then something began pushing things up out of the soil and making things out of nothing. One day things weren't there and another they were. I had never watched things before and it made me feel very curious. Scientific people are always curious and I am going to be scientific. I keep saying to myself, 'What is it? What is it?' It's something. It can't be nothing!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Occupation:
American Playwright
Born:
November 24, 1849
Died:
October 29, 1924
Quotes count:
64
Wikipedia:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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