Kathryn Lasky Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Kathryn Lasky quotes and sayings page 2 (author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 29 we have for her.
“I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.”
“I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!”
“Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.”
“Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.”
“I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.”
“I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree.”
“In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.”
“In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.”
“It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.”
“I came from a home where everybody had a book.”
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