"We human beings do a lot of dumb……" — Natalie Babbitt
"We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest."
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24 Quotes by Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt has 24 quotes on this site.
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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have…
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Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
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Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.
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Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
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For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse…
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Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
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But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like…
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You dont have to live forever just live.
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Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring…
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Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of…
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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