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Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it.
– Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  1. 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
  2. Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  3. She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  4. 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
  5. If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. – King Amor – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  6. 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
  7. They’re a pair of young Satans. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  8. 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
  9. Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  10. You said th’ Magic was in my back. Th’ doctor calls it rheumatics. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  11. Why, we are just the same – I am only a little girl like you. It’s just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me! – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  12. We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  13. You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  14. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
  15. Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child’s needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. – Penelope Ward
  16. My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest. – Moira Hodgson
  17. I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me. – William Manchester
  18. When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen. – David Allen
  19. Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girls mouth! – Gemma Halliday
  20. I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child – Thomas Burnett Swann
  21. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own gl???, his own trumpet, his own chronicle. – William Shakespeare
  22. You know what’s worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child. – John Hennessy
  23. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
  24. Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
  25. Don’t put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
  26. There’s a fine line between child-like -“ learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff -“ and being child-ish. – Robin Hoyle
  27. Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
  28. In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world. – Frances FitzGerald
  29. The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe. – Jackson Burnett
  30. ?????es… if used incorrectly it becomes man’s worst enemy, his worst nightmare. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  31. When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up – Gary Hopkins
  32. No matter how many times I’ve thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come. – Siobhan Davis
  33. It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers. – Thomas Hardy
  34. Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives. – David Wroblewski
  35. And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once. – Jeff Lindsay
  36. Always, God’s timing is the right time. Things happen when they have to happen and you only realise it later.- -“ Ernesto. – Paul Alkazraji
  37. The best things that happen I’d never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather. – Marilynne Robinson
  38. A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory. – Archibald Marwizi
  39. He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free. – Martin Luther
  40. Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time – Paulo Coelho

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