Ramona Quimby, Age 8 Quotes

“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.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“But also, as you go through life, you pick up shreds of things, and eventually you are able to fit them together”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Ramona required accuracy from books as well as people.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“A happy ending for today,” corrected Ramona. Tomorrow they would begin all over again.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“She did not want her father's hair to grow thin or her mother's hair to grow gray. She wanted her parents to stay exactly as they were forever and ever.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“For the first time, Ramona began to doubt that her father was the best artist in the whole world. This thought made her feel sad...”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“We have our ups and downs,” said Mrs. Quimby, “but we manage to get along, and we stick together.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“her teacher had written, without wasting words, that she missed her. Ramona was going to give her book report any way she wanted. So there, Mrs. Whaley. Ramona went to her room and looked at her table, which the family called “Ramona’s studio,” because it was a clutter of crayons, different kinds of paper, Scotch tape, bits of yarn, and odds and ends that Ramona used for amusing herself. Then Ramona thought a moment, and suddenly, filled with inspiration, she went to work. She knew exactly what she wanted to do and set about doing it. She worked with paper, crayons, Scotch tape, and rubber bands. She worked so hard and with such pleasure that her cheeks grew pink. Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Grown-ups often forgot that no child likes to be ordered to be nice to another child.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“The Quimbys looked at her in astonishment. “But who paid for them?” demanded Mr. Quimby. “A lonely gentleman who left a little while ago,” answered the waitress. “He must have been the man who sat across the aisle,” said Mrs. Quimby. “But why would he pay for our dinners? We never saw him before in our lives.” The waitress smiled. “Because he said you are such a nice family, and because he misses his children and grandchildren.” She dashed off with her pot of coffee, leaving the Quimbys in surprised, even shocked, silence. A nice family? After the way they had behaved on a rainy Sunday. “A mysterious stranger just like in a book,” said Beezus. “I never thought I’d meet one.” “Poor lonely man,” said Mrs. Quimby at last,”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“She knew her mother and father loved one another, but, sometimes when they were tired and hurried, or when they had long, serious conversations after the girls had gone to bed, she wondered and worried, because she knew other children whose parents had stopped loving each one another. Now she knew everything was all right.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Beezus has told her the way to remember how to spell the kind of principal who was the principal of a school was to remember the word ended in p-a-l, and not -p-l-e, was because the principal was her pal.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Yard Apes!" yelled Ramona, her name for the sort of boys who always got the best balls, who were always first on the playground, and who chased their soccer balls through other people's hopscotch games.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Willa Jean did not feel she was beautiful because she was a healthy child. She felt beautiful like a grown-up lady on TV.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Don’t let old Whaley get you down,” he answered. “She likes you OK. You’re a good kid.”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Ramona made a face. “Mother, do you have to say that every single morning?” she asked in exasperation.”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“father pointed out. “Now run along. I have studying to do.” Ramona thought this answer over and decided that since her parents agreed, they must be right. Well, Mrs. Whaley could just go jump in a lake, even though”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Ramona, I hear the mission bells above, Ramona, they’re ringing out our song of love.” Ramona stared at her book as she thought mean, dark thoughts about Uncle Hobart.”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Never again would he stand all day at a cash register, ringing up groceries for a long line of people who were always in a hurry. Ramona”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“absentminded”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“a fad started by Yard Ape, who sometimes brought his lunch.”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Never again would he stand all day at a cash”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“And will Mother have to sign your progress reports?”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“struggled into their wraps”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“grim. “Plenty.”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8

“Ramona needed a moment to”
― Beveryly Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8