Lois Lowry Quotes

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.

When I was little the sky was closer.

The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

We grew up in Woolton, Liverpool. We didn't have much, but it was irrelevant. We played out a lot with all the kids on the street.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

Size doesn't mean anything - not all the time.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

Everyone underestimates the maturity of kids.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!