Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Beverly Cleary - Page 2

He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.

Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its imaginary descent, stepped out onto the real first floor and raced a real problem. Her mother and father were leaving for Parents' Night.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

Didn't the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

I am not a pest," Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.