Quotes About Discovery

Frances Hodgson Burnett

It was in that strange and sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor mother left; that they had died and been carried away in the night

In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

declared you could see buds unsheath themselves. Also you could make the acquaintance of strange busy insect things running about on various unknown but evidently serious errands, sometimes carrying tiny scraps of straw or feather or food or climbing blades of grass as if they were trees from whose tops one could look out to explore the country.

PoczÄ…tkowo ludzie nie chcÄ… uwierzy?, ?e mo?na dokona? czegoÅ› nowego, pó?niej zaczynajÄ… ufa?, ?e mo?na tego dokona?, pó?niej widzÄ…, ?e siÄ™ ju? dokonuje, a gdy odkrycie jest dokonane, ludzko?? dziwi siÄ™, ?e nie zrobiono ju? tego przed wiekami.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

secret garden that morning, and in the midst of

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

bein' on th' stepladder lookin, over th' wall. But I'll tell

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I shall live forever and ever and ever! he cried grandly. I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows—like Dickon—and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well! I'm well! I feel—I feel as if I want to shout out something—something thankful, joyful!

Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's the best fun I ever had in my life—shut in here an' wakenin' up a garden.

meant to give a new impulse to the race—to rouse human creatures to new moods, to thrust them into places where they see new things. Men and women are being dragged out of their self-absorbed corners and stirred up and shaken.

Always, I liked the infinitive 'to go.' Let's go, let's go. let's really go. 'Andare' was the first verb I learned to conjugate in Italian. 'Andiamo,' let's go, teh sound comes out at a gallop.

If I lived here,...I have a feeling this place would take me.

Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.

I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.

When books go out into the world, they take on a life. Sometimes that life is a quiet and dusty one, waiting on the nether regions of library stacks. I have books of poetry like that. With others, the book's life is one of surprise because the book keeps on making its way, on it's own, into intriguing and larger spaces.