H. A. Rey Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.”
-- H. A. Rey

Source : H. A. Rey, Margret Rey (2009). “Curious George”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“I know what I liked as a child, and I donâ€™t do any book that I, as a child, wouldnâ€™t have liked.”
-- H. A. Rey

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.”
“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”
“What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.”
“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.”
“I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.”

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“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”
“If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?”
“The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.”
“I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.”
“My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.”

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