Rumer Godden Quotes

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

Every child begins the world again.

Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.

Children know the grace of god better than most of us. They see the world the way the morning brings it back to them; new and born and fresh and wonderful.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

I'm sure people would argue this, but I want to be different in everything I do. I don't think I've been the same in anything I've done, and I want to keep that up.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

Children are different - mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

Every person is unique.

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child's name is All Children.

To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.