"A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling."

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Margaret Wise Brown

#Book Quotes #Storytelling Quotes #Melody Quotes

“If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time!”
“I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American.”

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“Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains' through the sorrow and contamination of a lone and dreary world. These experiences may include sin, but they also include mistakes, disappointments, and the undeserved pain of adversity. The blessed news of the gospel is that the Atonement of Jesus Christ can purify all the uncleanness and sweeten all the bitterness we taste.”
“Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.”
“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”
“Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.”
“Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.”
“You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.”

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