Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Irene Hunt

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Irene Hunt.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Irene Hunt was an American children's writer known best for historical novels. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for her first book, Across Five Aprils, and won the medal for her second, Up a Road Slowly. For her contribution as a children's writer she was U.S. nominee in 1974 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books.

American - Writer | May 18, 1907 - May 18, 2001

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Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

Irene Hunt

Beautiful hours move so quickly.

Irene Hunt

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

Irene Hunt

It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.

Irene Hunt

That was the way it was that beautiful evening of cold November rain and muddy country roads and crazy windshield wipers. That was the moment of my greatest security and confidence; it was the time when I realized that love makes one a better person, a kinder gentler one.

Irene Hunt

No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

Irene Hunt

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

Irene Hunt

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

Irene Hunt