Quotes from A Child's Garden of Verses

“The rain is falling all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“To My Mother
You too, my mother, read my rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance to hear once more
The little feet along the floor.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“Time which none can bind,
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“In winter I get up at night,
and dress by yellow candlelight,
In summer, quite the other day,
I have to go to bed by day”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“All by myself I have to go,   With none to tell me what to do—   All alone beside the streams   And up the mountain-sides of dreams.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“Try as I like to find the way,   I never can get back by day,   Nor can remember plain and clear   The curious music that I hear.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“The world is so full of a number of things,        I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“  Years may go by, and the wheel in the river        Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day,   Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever        Long after all of the boys are away.   Home for the Indies and home from the ocean,        Heroes and soldiers we all will come home;   Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion,        Turning and churning that river to foam.   You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled,        I with your marble of Saturday last,   Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled,        Here we shall meet and remember the past.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

“Time to Rise
A birdie with a yellow bill
Hopped upon my window sill,
Cocked his shining eye and said:
"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from A Child's Garden of Verses

About the author

Popular quotes

“He would never be able to emulate Richard’s last gesture of defiance—gallant, glorious, and quite mad.”
― Sharon Kay Penman, quote from Lionheart

“Who gives a damn about their reputation? Oh, that would be me.”
― A. Meredith Walters, quote from Bad Rep

“Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.
Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.”
― Monica Murphy, quote from Second Chance Boyfriend

“I am the girl who has always been desperate to get the hell out of there.”
― G.J. Walker-Smith, quote from Saving Wishes

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Liz Murray, quote from Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

Interesting books

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.