Illustrator Quotes

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

To the inhabitants of Warsaw - We wage war only against hostile troops, NOT against peaceful citizens.

Words and Deeds. Cartoon Caption

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

Nicolas Bentley

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

Ludwig Bemelmans

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

E. L. Konigsburg

Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Natalie Babbitt

One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.

Ezra Jack Keats

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Alexis De Veaux

All the famous people had had an awful time. One of them had a drunken father. Another had a stammer. Another had to wash hundreds of dirty bottles. They had all had what was called a difficult childhood. Clearly you had to have one if you wanted to become famous.

There is much wisdom that may be learned before a peat fire.

Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.

Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. — from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

Chris Van Allsburg

That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple things last; they are repeated over and over by each generation.

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

Marcus Sedgwick

She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.

Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you'll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there's no going back.

If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living.

Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.

Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

Is there a short-eared koobish, then?' Mmmyes...' said J.Lo. 'But it is technically not really a koobish. Is more alike a kind of singing pumpkin.' We had conversations like these all the time, where I just eventually gave up.

When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.