"If I have managed to brighten up even……" — Astrid Lindgren
"If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied."
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24 Quotes by Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren has 24 quotes on this site.
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If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.
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What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and…
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And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child.…
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Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
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What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are…
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I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard…
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I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
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There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of…
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I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to…
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I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not…
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Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.
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Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was…
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
— Isaac Asimov
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There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit,…
— George Eliot
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Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
— Ralph Wycherley
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Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of…
— George W. Bush
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When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten,…
— John C. Maxwell
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Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the…
— Anne Frank
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We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
— Helen Keller
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In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
— Gautama Buddha
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If you would and you could brighten my northern sky.
— Nick Drake
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A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with…
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