Quotes About Hope

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

It was a book about the French Revolution, and she was soon lost in a harrowing picture of the prisoners in the Bastille—men who had spent so many years in dungeons that when they were dragged out by those who rescued them, their long, gray hair and beards almost hid their faces, and they had forgotten that an outside world existed at all, and were like beings in a dream.

I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here myself. That

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ese día, la niña sin cariño y el niño enfermo que creía que iba a morir gozaron de estar juntos.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Por supuesto que debe haber mucha magia en el mundo- dijo sagazmente un día-, pero la gente no sabe cómo es ni cómo hacerla. A lo mejor al principio es decir simplemente cosas bonitas que van a pasar hasta que haces que pasen

Frances Hodgson Burnett

lad—what's names to th' Joy Maker

Is the spring coming? he said. What is it like? You don't see it in rooms if you are ill. It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth, said Mary.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

It won't be enough for either of us. But it will be better than nothing.

Mrs. Medlock, knowing Ben had come from the gardens, hoped that he might have caught sight of his master and even by chance of his meeting with Master Colin. Did you see either of them, Weatherstaff? she asked.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

dream—the real—real dream.

shall get well! I shall get well!" he cried out. "Mary! Dickon! I shall get well! And I shall live forever and ever and ever!

century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders

Somehow, something always happens, she cried, just before things get to the very worst. It is as if the Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worst thing never QUITE comes.

Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

Frances Hodgson Burnett