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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
— Natalie Babbitt
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
— Irving Babbitt
I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.
— Natalie Babbitt
The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.
— Natalie Babbitt
City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.
— Bruce Babbitt
Life always seems to have worries, even if you own a big and beautiful house on the best street in town.
— Natalie Babbitt
The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.
— Bruce Babbitt
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
— Natalie Babbitt
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
— Irving Babbitt
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
— Irving Babbitt
I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.
— Bruce Babbitt
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
— Irving Babbitt
The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
— Milton Babbitt
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
— Irving Babbitt
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
— Irving Babbitt
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
— Irving Babbitt
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.
— Irving Babbitt
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
— Irving Babbitt
We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.
— Bruce Babbitt
and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.
— Sinclair Lewis
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
— Natalie Babbitt
What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story.
— Natalie Babbitt
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
— Irving Babbitt
Dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.
— Natalie Babbitt
Outside, the night seemed poised on tiptoe, waiting, waiting, holding its breath for the storm.
— Natalie Babbitt
They've really begun the war," he said to himself. "And all over a word in a dictionary, the ninnies!
— Natalie Babbitt
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
— Irving Babbitt
Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.Tuck Everlasting — Natalie Babbitt
And suddenly, she longed for a thunderstorm.
— Natalie Babbitt
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[B]elieving, was her own true, promising friend once more.
— Natalie Babbitt
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
— Irving Babbitt
Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had.
— Natalie Babbitt
What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
— Bruce Babbitt
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
— Natalie Babbitt
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt
You dont have to live forever just live.
— Natalie Babbitt
You really have to love words if you're going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly spend a lot of time with words.
— Natalie Babbitt
My mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.
— Natalie Babbitt
Nonsense. It's elves!
— Natalie Babbitt
The sky was a ragged blaze of red and pink and orange, and its double trembled on the surface of the pond like color spilled from a paintbox.
— Natalie Babbitt
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
— Irving Babbitt
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
— Irving Babbitt
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
— Natalie Babbitt
I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
— Natalie Babbitt
He wasn't crazy. How could he be? He was just amazing. But she was struck dumb. All she could do was stare at him. — Natalie Babbitt
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— Ellen C. Babbitt
For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
— Natalie Babbitt
Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.
— Bruce Babbitt
No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.
— Bruce Babbitt
She discovered the wings she never knew she had.
— Natalie Babbitt
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
— Bruce Babbitt
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
— Natalie Babbitt
I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread.
— Natalie Babbitt
Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.
— Natalie Babbitt
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
— Irving Babbitt
A fresh breeze lifted Winnie's hair, and from somewhere in the village behind them a dog barked.
— Natalie Babbitt
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
— Natalie Babbitt
Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.
— Natalie Babbitt
His name was George F. Babbitt, and ... he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.
— Sinclair Lewis
You can't have living without dying.
— Natalie Babbitt
