Quotes About Perspective

When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round. But don't you - none o' you - think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out that you're mistaken, an' you won't find it out without hard knocks.

She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.

I don't know what it is to be hungry

I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

Oh Sara! Ermengarde whispered joyfully. It is like a story. It is a story, said Sara. Everything's a story. You are a story- I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round. But don't you—none o' you—think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it out without hard knocks.

To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now.

And, as to her papa, there is nothing so grand in being an Indian officer.

It sounds nicer than it seems in the book, she would say. I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always hated the French Revolution, but you make it seem like a story. It is a story, Sara would answer. They are all stories. Everything is a story—everything in this world. You are a story—I am a story—Miss Minchin is a story. You can make a story out of anything.

Gente egoísta é que diz isso. Chama de egoísta todo mundo que não faz o que eles querem.

We are just the same—I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds," she said. "And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous." "Perhaps Sara will be so rich that she will be ridiculous," giggled Jessie. "She's ridiculous without being rich," Lavinia sniffed.

Everything's a story — You are a story — I am a story.

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thoughts--are as powerful as electric batteries--as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let if stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.

There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like

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

Don't let us talk about dying; I don't like it. Let us talk about living.

Everything's a story. You are a story - I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

as the train whirled him through the mountain passes and golden plains, the man who was 'coming alive' began to think in a new way and he thought long and steadily and deeply.

Everything's a story. You are a story -I am a story. - Sara Crewe

They all agree, Italy is not what it used to be. What is? All my adult life I've heard how Silicon Valley used to be all orchards, how Atlanta used to be genteel, how publishing used to be run by gentlemen, how houses used to cost what a car costs now. All true, but what can you do but live now?

What if you did not feel uncertainty, the white writing says. Are you exempt from doubt? Why not rename it excitement?

Travel is a privilege because it gives you the world you were not given. It allows you to be extant in other versions.