It’s surprising how poignant and relevant phrases from childhood books can be as we get older. We’ve put together a list of some of our favourites:
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. – J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit
- Grab a chance and you won’t be sorry for a might-have-been. – Arthur Ransome, We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea
- You’re Mad. Bonkers. Off your head…but I’ll tell you a secret…all of the best people are. – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
- What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. – C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
- The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go. – Dr Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- True courage is facing danger when you are afraid. – L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
- Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by the way it’s covered; for inside those tattered pages, there’s a lot to be discovered. – Stephen Cosgrove, Serendipity
- You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
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