Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017. She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ, and to the TED conference.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend
I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have. — © Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.
No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.
If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.
It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.
At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?
I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.
I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.
I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.
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