Quotes from Kirby Larson

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds. —Miss Kanagawa

The war was in Europe, not here. Why all this fuss about where someone was born? Wasn't it where he lived - rather, how he lived - that counted?

I thought about all the fences that get built in this world - the ones that divide folks and tear them up, like the actions of the Kaiser and his henchmen, and the ones that bring folks closer together, like this stretch of fence Karl Mueller had build for me.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes the meal.

Ted put a candy bar in his pocket. Then he wandered over to the freezer case, studying the choices before strolling out of the store. Mitsi hurried after him, barely able to breathe. When

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams where dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

But even a perfect pear can harbor a worm within.

It seems unfair to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one's birthday cake.

Rather, the lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than to crops, more to Golden Rule than to gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Mitsi had never eaten a Vienna sausage before, but in the first three days at Camp Harmony, they were served three times.

homestead fires were fed with dried buffalo

I absolutely love writing and sharing my enthusiasm with students, and because of 'Hattie Big Sky,' Montana holds a special place in my heart.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.