“How far I've come! I'm the same girl and yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person into another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“It's a strange thing, but somehow we expect more of girls than of boys. It is the sisters and wives and mothers, you know, Caddie, who keep the world sweet and beautiful. What a rough world it would be if there were only men and boys in it, doing things in their rough way! A woman's task is to teach them gentleness and courtesy and love and kindness. It's a big task, too, Caddie--harder than cutting trees or building mills or damming rivers. It takes nerve and courage and patience, but good women have those things. They have them just as much as the men who build bridges and carve roads through the wilderness. A woman's work is something fine and noble to grow up to, and it is just as important as a man's.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“. . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess—the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man's honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“It was a hard struggle, but what I have in life I have earned with my own hands. I have done well, and I have an honest man’s honest pride. I want no lands and honors which I have not won by my own good sense and industry.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“Whatever happens I want you to think of yourselves as young Americans, and I want you to be proud of that. It is difficult to tell you about England, because there all men are not free to pursue their own lives in their own ways. Some men live like princes, while other men must beg for the very crusts that keep them alive.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“But every redhead's temper has its limitations.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“although they might never be rich or famous in America, they would have the satisfaction of knowing that what they had they had made for themselves.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
“. . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day.”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, quote from Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink
Born place: in Moscow, Idaho, The United States
Born date December 28, 1895
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“When we choose to love the work we do, we can catch our limit of happiness, meaning, and fulfillment every day.”
― quote from Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
“What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? “How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.”
― Douglas Preston, quote from Blue Labyrinth
“It's bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and - next thing you know - it seems as if there's some intense connection with the person - or at least you feel that closeness and hope it's mutual”
― Zack Love, quote from The Syrian Virgin
“The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:—ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing! The sickness—the nausea— The pitiless pain— Have ceased, with the fever That maddened my brain— With the fever called “Living” That burned in my brain. And”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.”
― Robin S. Sharma, quote from Who Will Cry When You Die? Life Lessons from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
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