The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.


Louisa May Alcott

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
And the emotion is especially strong in Boston. Here, Louisa May Alcott is their home-town girl.
KATE FISHER
Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it fo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I hate ordinary people!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, with...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN
I like good strong words that mean something…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…the child's heart bled when it was broken.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any wa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs....
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whol...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…the violin — that most human of all instruments…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...str...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Love covers a multitude of sins…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Every member of Parliament has been sent there by Canadians, and that decision should be respected, ...
JACK LAYTON
Small children should never ever be left alone.
LT. DAVID WALTEMEYER
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
CARL JUNG
I can't express my appreciation enough to all of the people who made a tremendous effort so that our...
JOE KOBRYNER
Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Help your father
As he ages
And loses his strength
For it was he who sheltered you RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN
To some extent, people should think of this as maybe a two- or three-year decision. Some plan option...
JACK HOADLEY
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on wri...
KATE BERNHEIMER
The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY
Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY
Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY
I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY
A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY
Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY
It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY
You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY
I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY
Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY
Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND
We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND
None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND
He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY
We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth a...
LEVI WOODBURY
Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
GLORIA STEINEM
Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible wi...
HYMAN GEORGE RICKOVER
I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such ques...
BETH KEPHART
My parents stood still. It was like we were on two separate islands. Mom and Dad were on one, and I ...
JENELLE JACK PIERRE
Parents, keep your children closer when they are young, because they will keep you closer when you'r...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move a...
PAULO COELHO
Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
JEREMY IRONS
The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thank...
DORIS CHRISTOPHER
One day ask your daughter the kind of mother she wants to be! One day ask your son the kind of fathe...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
People in life should not judge other people whoever they are whatever they do there religion or cre...
GARY F EVANS...
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
ISAAC HAYES
And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY
In my experience, he was excellent with children, ... He didn't talk down to us. He may have brought...
DOUGLAS GRESHAM
Miracles are the children bread and not for grown up men.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS
Life is like a seesaw you can be up hi one minute then before you know it you can be down low the ne...
GARY F EVANS...
We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries...
LEMONY SNICKET
Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respe...
PETER CAMEJO
One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true...
DAVID ICKE
It may be insubstantial and soon melt away or it may be the beginning of something significant. My h...
ANDRE BRAUGHER
Adults are only children with a few more years on top.
CJ HECK
People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should ...
GLORIA ALLRED
You told me a love story. I honestly believe your parents wanted the best for you, but their love al...
PAULO COELHO
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our chil...
KATHRYN HARRISON
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the...
MARGARET ATWOOD
She wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in s...
MADELINE MILLER

More Louisa May Alcott

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I like good strong words that mean something…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in word...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be over...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Money is a needful and precious thing,
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man ou...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I have made a plan for my life, as I am in my teens, and no more a child. I am old for my age and do...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Love is a great beautifier.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It takes two flints to make a fire.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of gove...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Exce...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, bu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so ma...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Housekeeping ain't no joke
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so m...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares wheth...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; ba...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving... And we all have the power...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman qu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She was the first of her kind, ... She was a woman living in a man's world and succeeding in a man's...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, bu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to tou...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit sp...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window on...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and ha...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for oth...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you und...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Let us be elegant or die!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and wit...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Don't try to make me grow up before my time…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but ma...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his frien...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as yo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husb...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chival...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithf...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
There are plenty to love you so try to be satisfied with Father and Mother, Sisters and Brothers, fr...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an America...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
...the words 'we are sisters' went straight to her heart and nestled there.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seem...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…the child's heart bled when it was broken.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs....
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whol...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…the violin — that most human of all instruments…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...str...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it fo...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
But, like all happiness, it did not last long…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any wa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Love covers a multitude of sins…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I hate ordinary people!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getti...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands."

"They're not empty no...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, with...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man ou...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never t...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my e...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Be worthy love, and love will come.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm de...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a ri...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fa...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning, and may be many; but you can over...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delig...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go d...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never thi...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten afte...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, an...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
…the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
When Laurie said 'Good-by', he whispered significantly, "It won't do a bit of good, Jo. My eye is on...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Presently, out from the wrappings came a teapot, which caused her to clasp her hands with delight, f...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shap...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the be...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I could have been a great many things.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
I want my daughters to be beautiful, accomplished, and good. To be admired, loved, and respected. To...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an America...
LOUISA ALCOTT
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for...
LOUISA ALCOTT
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding th...
LOUISA ALCOTT
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seem...
LOUISA ALCOTT
If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had bett...
LOUISA ALCOTT
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
LOUISA ALCOTT
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests
LOUISA ALCOTT
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction tha...
LOUISA ALCOTT
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
LOUISA ALCOTT
My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures (re descriptions in Uncle ...
LOUISA MAE ALCOTT
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
LOUIS MAY ALCOTT