Top 40 Kathryn Lasky Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.”

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2. “Blood hardly defines one’s character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. – Soren.”

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3. “I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.”

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4. “I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.”

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5. “Thinking – in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature – helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.”

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6. “Dreams weigh nothing. – Marie Antoinette.”

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7. “A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”

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8. “Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain’t no bird that’s my equal. – Twilight.”

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9. “She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer.”

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10. “Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman.”

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11. “Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with – often with cruel and deceitful intentions – in an unreal world.”

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12. “Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.”

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13. “I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can’t see.”

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14. “I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world.”

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15. “The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.”

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16. “When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.”

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17. “Without hope it is nearly impossible to live. Hope is the air that our spirits breathe.”

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18. “Words, as you well know, can be powerful. – Digger.”

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19. “I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan – no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.”

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20. “No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big!”

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21. “Hush little owl, You’re with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie’s scamps Ain’t got nothin to show the champ. I’ll pop a spiral With a twist, Do a three-sixty And scatter mist – -.”

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22. “To find one’s special quality One must lead a life of deep humility. To serve in this way Never question but obey Is the blessing of St Aggie’s charity. – The owls of St. Aegolius.”

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23. “Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.”

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24. “Young’uns!” Mrs. P. interrupted. “No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table!”

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25. “Far away if first black, But it shall be back Over field Over flower In the twilight hour. We are home in our tree. We are owls, we are free. As we go, this we know Glaux is nigh.”

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26. “No” was most definitely Faolan’s favorite word. “No” and “More milk.”

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27. “To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.”

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28. “He didn’t know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn’t want.”

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29. “Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate.”

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30. “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. – James Baldwin.”

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31. “Anything worth doing has risks.” Hortense paused. “And believe me, this is worth doing.”

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32. “This morning I was ten years old. Tonight I am older than the stars.”

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33. “I am like glass to him, like water, Hannah thought to herself, alone now in the music room, heart racing. He sees through me, but how? Page: 97.”

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34. “My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.”

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35. “We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.”

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36. “I have jumped for a tree, jumped for a raven, jumped for a cougar. I shall jump for the sun!”

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37. “All this stuff about serving and stations. We are all the same now. There are no stations, no nests, no hollows. We’re all orphans. We’ve all seen horrible things. The world is different now. And part of that difference is that there is no difference between any of us.”

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38. “For when the world one knew began to crumble away bit by bit, when not only your memories but the memories that others might have of you grew dim with time and distance, when, indeed, you began to fade into a nothingness in the minds of the owls that you loved best, well, perhaps that was when legends could become real.”

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39. “In the daytime, there was often a lovely patch of blue, and sometimes toward evening, before twilight, the clouds turned bright orange or pink.”

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40. “Rose believed in cats-in feeding them and cuddling them. She did not find cats a nuisance in the least. She found them soft, quiet, gentle, and for the most part accepting. She loved the feeling when a cat plopped in her lap. She often wondered how they could be so comforting without ever saying a word. How they could seem to listen, to understand.”

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