Margaret Lee Runbeck - Born Quotes

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Nobody has ever written a juvenile book on 'How to win friends and influence people.' Children are born knowing.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Some people are born into their religions, as they are born into being blondes, or French, or inhabitants of the upper brackets of wealth. This inherited religion is often too perfunctory to be of much practical use. As in most other values, the intimately important religion is the one which has been chosen voluntarily.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

So, a baby had been born to them at last. Not circumstantially of their bodies, but desirously of their hearts. They had both borne this child, as Tom had facetiously said; they had looked for it and waited, looking and looking until at last they found their own.

Margaret Lee Runbeck