Newbery Ala Quotes & Sayings

Children's books: Every time you find the right, the necessary, book for a child - a book about sadness overcome, unfairness battled, hearts mended - you perform the best kind of magic ... every time you give just the right book to just the right child, you're saying, "You, my friend, have potential." That is a gift. That is a miracle. And that is what you do, each of you, every single day. — Katherine Applegate

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. — Albert Einstein

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the dementor feeds upon - hope, happiness, the desire to survive - but it cannot feel despair, as real humans can, so the dementors can't hurt it. — J.K. Rowling

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it. — Mary Jo Putney

I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself. — Steven Millhauser

... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves. — John Yorke

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right. — Eleanor Porter

Does the Japanese race, wonders Jacob, derive gratification from self-inflicted misery? — David Mitchell

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award. He is also the author of Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. — Louis Sachar

It's important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren't the only ones to triumph in war. — Guillermo Del Toro

She remembered how Billy always picked the first apple blossoms and put them into a tin cup for her. They made the house smell like springtime. Billy said apple trees were a double blessing, first for the blossoms and then the apples. — Sandra Dallas

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations. — Zig Ziglar

I started doing pot jokes, and I noticed that audiences invariably love pot jokes. Even people who don't smoke pot think it's a funny subject. — Doug Benson

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, that it is a bad thing - and that eliminating randomness is done by eliminating randomness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high. — Choa Kok Sui