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Top 25 Kirby Larson Quotes (2025 Update)

Kirby Larson Quote: “Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.”

1. “Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.”

2. “There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “It’s the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.”

3. “It’s the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.”

4. “The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.”

5. “There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “I’ve always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.”

6. “I’ve always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa.”

7. “The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.”

8. “It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things – they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It’s like gathering clouds.”

9. “My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things – they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It’s like gathering clouds.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Character is everything, especially these days when that’s what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don’t have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.”

10. “Character is everything, especially these days when that’s what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don’t have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Sometimes, lying out on Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt’s back lawn, it’d felt as if I could stretch out my arms and my fingertips and rake them across the underside of the heavens and end up with a fistful of stars.”

11. “Sometimes, lying out on Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt’s back lawn, it’d felt as if I could stretch out my arms and my fingertips and rake them across the underside of the heavens and end up with a fistful of stars.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don’t have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.”

12. “Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don’t have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Isn’t it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?”

13. “Isn’t it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!”

14. “Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.”

15. “Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don’t do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “The war was in Europe, not here. Why all this fuss about where someone was born? Wasn’t it where he lived – rather, how he lived – that counted?”

16. “The war was in Europe, not here. Why all this fuss about where someone was born? Wasn’t it where he lived – rather, how he lived – that counted?”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Hon, when someone’s a true friend, there’s no need to miss ‘em.” She patted her chest. “’Cause they’re always right here.”

17. “Hon, when someone’s a true friend, there’s no need to miss ‘em.” She patted her chest. “’Cause they’re always right here.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.”

18. “I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “I thought about all the fences that get built in this world – the ones that divide folks and tear them up, like the actions of the Kaiser and his henchmen, and the ones that bring folks closer together, like this stretch of fence Karl Mueller had build for me.”

19. “I thought about all the fences that get built in this world – the ones that divide folks and tear them up, like the actions of the Kaiser and his henchmen, and the ones that bring folks closer together, like this stretch of fence Karl Mueller had build for me.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.”

20. “I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “The truth can both lift up and knock down.”

21. “The truth can both lift up and knock down.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Hattie.′ Grace patted my arm. ‘My cows sing better than you do.”

22. “Hattie.′ Grace patted my arm. ‘My cows sing better than you do.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.”

23. “I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim’s chickens, with no way to fly that high.”

24. “Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim’s chickens, with no way to fly that high.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Ted put a candy bar in his pocket. Then he wandered over to the freezer case, studying the choices before strolling out of the store. Mitsi hurried after him, barely able to breathe. When.”

25. “Ted put a candy bar in his pocket. Then he wandered over to the freezer case, studying the choices before strolling out of the store. Mitsi hurried after him, barely able to breathe. When.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “Why couldn’t I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown’s niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.”

26. “Why couldn’t I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown’s niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.”

27. “The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.”

28. “If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.”

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Kirby Larson Quote: “I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.”

29. “I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.”

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