The Little Red Hen

Thoughtful Sunday

"Dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born....Being part of the whole thing, That's the blessing.

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, 1975.

Thoughtful Sunday

"Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you - only when it doesn't."

Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, 1975.

Thoughtful Sunday

"One doesn't contradict a hungry tiger."

My Father's Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett, 1948.

Thoughtful Sunday

"Often Katy would wish that she someday could be

Something quiet and simple like a lovely elm tree,

Or a ramshackle barn all alone on a hill

Where the noisiest thing was a squeaky windmill.

'It might become lonely,' she thought, 'way out there,

But at least there's a view with a lot of fresh air.'"

The Caboose Who Got Loose, Bill Peet, 1971.

Thoughtful Sunday

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill-- several thrills?"

Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery, 1908.

Thoughtful Sunday

"The fact that she had a nut for a head did make new ideas difficult for her mind to grasp."

Miss Hickory, Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1946.

Thoughtful Sunday

"If you go around thinking you're being cheated, life becomes very unpleasant."

Bambi's Children, Felix Salten, 1939.

Thoughtful Sunday

"If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers."

Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery, 1908

Thoughtful Sunday

"I didn't ask what kinds of things hide behind the black trees in the middle of the night. When you go owling you have to be brave."

Owl Moon, Jane Yolen, 1987

Thoughtful Sunday

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1907