22 Quotes by Eleanor Farjeon

In the woods the bluebells seemLike a blue and magic dream,Blue water, light and airFlow among them there.But the eager girl who pullsBluebells up in basketfulsWhen she gets them home will findThe magic left behind.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

Love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.