Am one of the ugliest children I ever saw. She is beginning
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you only read what you agree with, you'll never learn anything. - James D. Hodgson
— Pat Williams
Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary - she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
All women are princesses , it is our right.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just because it's funny.
— Joel Hodgson
There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like,
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
She IS too fat," said Lavinia. "And Sara is too thin.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The mere fact of her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Now some they do and some they don'tAnd some you just can't tell
And some they will and some they won't
With some it's just as well. — Roger Hodgson
He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you.
— Roger Hodgson
side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire - Master Colin.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything;
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
THE SECRET GARDEN
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans,
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
— Joel Hodgson
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
— Joel Hodgson
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street. — Ralph Hodgson
Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Heavy burdens fell away so easily when one is traveling. — Barbara Hodgson
There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest. — Moira Hodgson
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart — Frances Hodgson Burnett
to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend), — Frances Hodgson Burnett
We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Death is always sudden however long one waits. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I did not pray Him to lay bareThe mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see. — Ralph Hodgson
Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes; — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
And, suddenly, it came home to me that I was a little man in a little ship, in the midst of a very great sea. — William Hope Hodgson
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara — Frances Hodgson Burnett
But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's what we do in our future, that decides how important our past truly was. — Mona Hodgson
Secret garden that morning, and in the midst of — Frances Hodgson Burnett
stories belong to everybody. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
When we're not looking seems to be the time when God finds the most delight in surprising us — Mona Hodgson
-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust. — Barbara Hodgson
you are going to be sent home....I 'm glad of it
but where's HOME ? — Frances Hodgson Burnett
She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
South Park started as a little video Christmas card. — Joel Hodgson
There was light born on the darkest day, but no-one wants to know, and no-one wants to Cry — Roger Hodgson
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
They're a pair of young Satans. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000. — Joel Hodgson
Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Her affection for everything she could love increased. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Soldiers don't complain ... I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Things happen to people by accident. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'm not prepared to make any comments on the World Cup in Qatar in 1922. — Roy Hodgson
There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story ... everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us — Frances Hodgson Burnett
She lay and listened to the quietness. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
So keep your chin up, boy, forget the pain. I know you'll make it, if you try again. There's no use in quitting, when the world is waiting for you. — Roger Hodgson
...the history of all love is writ with one pen. — William Hope Hodgson
I won't have dull people, she used to say, I'm dull myself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Take a look at my girlfriend, she's the only one I got. Not much of a girl friend, never seem to get a lot. — Roger Hodgson
Don't let us make it tidy," said Mary anxiously. "It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
It was a long corridor and it branched into other corridors and it led her up short flights of steps which mounted to others again. There — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Princess Little Lord — Frances Hodgson Burnett
She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked! — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Bullies are just men who don't know they are cowards, of course. — Antonia Hodgson
dream - the real - real dream. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
The air was full of spices... A Little Princess — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Did anyone ever have a boring dream? — Ralph Hodgson
If I go on talking and talking ... and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
