72 Quotes by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.

Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It’s so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.

On New Year’s Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

You think religion is what’s inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it’s not. It’s wings! Wings!