top of page
Exlpore more Time quotes

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Explore more quotes by Dick Bruna

"I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was."

"But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me."

"Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books."

"I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it."

"Miffy has changed quite a lot since the early books, although I never realised it at the time."

"Before he went to sleep, I told him a little story about a rabbit we saw run around the beach house we rented."

"My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!"
bottom of page