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Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Tagged: Language, Feelings, emotions, Connection, Understand, World, language beyond words
“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, via Amazon
Tagged: Motivational, hanging in, Holding On, Encouragement, Waiting, Patience, Inspirational, wonderful things, Dreams, right time
“When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden(HarperClassics)
Tagged: Thoughts, life advice
“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden(HarperClassics)
Tagged: strength, Fighting, fighter, Courage
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Tagged: Garden, Ways of Seeing, Quote of the Moment
“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, The Secret Garden
Tagged: Change, believing
“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Tagged: first lines of books, Ugly Children
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