Home / Quotes / Quote by Laura E. Richards

Quote by Laura E. Richards

“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”

Quote by Laura E. Richards

Author

Laura E. Richards

Laura E. Richards was an American writer known for her children's literature. Her works were highly appreciated by children and won multiple awards. She was born on February 27, 1850, and passed away on January 14, 1943. more

You May Also Like

“I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.”

Kind Felt Honest Eating Folks Buttons Old Fashioned Wags

Author:Laura E. Richards

“I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.”

Has Beens Poetry Dinner

Author:Laura E. Richards

“We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.”

Knows May Whole Joy Sorrow Towns Neighbor Cake Layers Small Town Filling Lemons

Author:Laura E. Richards

“We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.”

Reality Prayer Answers Acknowledge

Author:Mary E. Hunt

“The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.”

Firsts Children Book Impact Colossal

Author:Joan Aiken

“Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.”

Thinking Writing Tvs Cartoon Animation Good Writing Overlooked

Author:Matt Groening

“A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.”

Should Kind Children Doe Ideas Different Literature Rich Poet Paper Acquire Dedicated Different Kinds Marvelous Lunatic Marvellous Children's Literature

Author:Joan Aiken

“since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.”

Way Should Children Book Ideas Courses Childhood Six Hundred Insight New Ideas Vocabulary

Author:Joan Aiken

“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.”

“Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.”

Wealth Bereavement

Author:Joan Aiken