{"quotes":[{"text":"It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.","author":"Thomas M. Disch","tags":["childrens","life","people","rationality"],"id":24643,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Disch"},{"text":"Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.","author":"Gillian Shields","tags":["childrens","cute","need","pets","wants"],"id":47195,"author_id":"Gillian+Shields"},{"text":"A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.","author":"LaDene Mayville","tags":["ants","children","children-books","children-s-books","childrens","inspiration","inspirational","motivation","motivational"],"id":54952,"author_id":"LaDene+Mayville"},{"text":"Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["childrens","girls","life"],"id":84141,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles......They call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.","author":"Dr. Seuss","tags":["childrens","humor"],"id":98669,"author_id":"Dr.+Seuss"},{"text":"Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.","author":"Thomas M. Disch","tags":["childrens","flowers","humor","love"],"id":117713,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Disch"},{"text":"What is Gornite? Why can't you heat it? Will it make you laugh? - I hope so.","author":"Lucas Riddle","tags":["childrens","humour","inspirational","science-fiction"],"id":146413,"author_id":"Lucas+Riddle"},{"text":"Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious…Then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window. So there could be one left open.","author":"Philip Pullman","tags":["adventure","childrens","classics","fantasy","fiction","religion","science-fiction","science-fiction-fantasy","steampunk","young-adult"],"id":171048,"author_id":"Philip+Pullman"},{"text":"The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in.","author":"Thomas M. Disch","tags":["childrens","life","perspective","view"],"id":196281,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Disch"},{"text":"The toaster (lacking real bread) would pretend to make two crispy slices of toast. Or, if the day seemed special in some way, it would toast an imaginary English muffin.","author":"Thomas M. Disch","tags":["appliance","childrens","cute","toaster"],"id":198128,"author_id":"Thomas+M.+Disch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}