Lobel Quotes & Sayings

Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. — Arnold Lobel

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Blah, said Toad. — Arnold Lobel

There is no end to the good we can do, to the influence we can have with others. Let us not dwell on the critical or the negative. Let us pray for strength; let us pray for capacity and desire to assist others. Let us radiate the light of the gospel at all times and all places, that the Spirit of the Redeemer may radiate from us. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery. — Arnold Lobel

The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine! — Arnold Lobel

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad) — Arnold Lobel

I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children. — Arnold Lobel

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn't be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew it would, back to the boonies. I was on patrol again. Monaco was on point. Peewee and Walowick followed him. Lobel and Brunner were next, then Johnson, the sixty cradled in his arm as if it were a child. We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill. I was in the rear, and for some reason I turned back. Behind me, trailing the platoon, were the others. Brew, Jenkins, Sergeant Dongan, Turner, and Lewis, the new guys, and Lieutenant Carroll.
I knew I was mixing my prayers, but it didn't matter. I just wanted God to care for them, to keep them whole. I knew they were thinking about me and Peewee. — Walter Dean Myers

We must stop eating!' cried Toad as he ate another. — Arnold Lobel

Owl felt happy as he filled his cup. It tastes a little bit salty, he said, but tear-drop tea is always very good. — Arnold Lobel

I like fast plots with things that explode. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation. — Arnold Lobel

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness. — Arnold Lobel

Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it is good; some of it is bad. — Arnold Lobel

You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with. — Dane Cook

The photo had been taken at the opening of JB's fifth, long-delayed show, 'Frog and Toad,' which had been exclusively images of the two of them, but very blurred, and more abstract than JB's previous work. (They hadn't quite known what to think of the series title, though JB had claimed it was affectionate. 'Arnold Lobel?' he had screeched at them when they asked him about it. 'Hello?!' But neither he nor Willem had read Lobel's books as children, and they'd had to go out and buy them to make sense of the reference.) — Hanya Yanagihara

Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together. — Arnold Lobel

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake. — Arnold Lobel

Will you not see?" she cried. "You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it? — Jane Gaskell

Winter is beautiful, but bed is better. — Arnold Lobel

Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves. — Arnold Lobel

The question is which one of us is the frog and which is the toad,' Willem had said after they'd first seen the show, in JB's studio, and read the kindhearted books to each other late that night, laughing helplessly as they did.
He'd smiled; they had been lying in bed. 'Obviously, I'm the toad,' he said.
'No,' Willem said, 'I think you're the frog; your eyes are the same color as his skin.'
Willem sounded so serious that he grinned. 'That's your evidence?' he asked. 'And so what do you have in common with the toad?'
'I think I actually have a jacket like the one he has,' Willem said, and they began laughing again. — Hanya Yanagihara

Made you breakfast. Are you feeling okay? You look a little gray." I grunt. Morning is the devil's time. — Francesca Zappia

Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed. — Arnold Lobel