Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
Beatrix Potter
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Beatrix Potter
Age: 77 †
Born: 1866
Born: July 28
Died: 1943
Died: December 22
Author
Botanist
Illustrator
Mycologist
Novelist
Painter
Scientific Illustrator
Writer
Helen Beatrix Potter Heelis
Helen Beatrix Potter
Vision
Pass
Hiking
Fells
Land
Flower
Wander
Bogs
Seeing
Step
Rough
Sauntering
Lying
Walking
Stone
Trekking
Eye
Walk
Thank
Strolling
Take
Journey
Legs
Patch
Every
Steps
Bed
Patches
Never
Walks
Stones
Cotton
More quotes by Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
Beatrix Potter
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
Beatrix Potter
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
Beatrix Potter
I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
Beatrix Potter
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
Beatrix Potter
Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
Beatrix Potter
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
Beatrix Potter
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
Beatrix Potter
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
Beatrix Potter
This is a fierce bad rabbit look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness my education was neglected.
Beatrix Potter
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
Beatrix Potter
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
Beatrix Potter
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
Beatrix Potter
I am worn to a raveling.
Beatrix Potter
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
Beatrix Potter
