Eloise Lownsbery Quotes

United States, Author
1888 – 1967.

Eloise Lownsbery was the recipient of a Newbery Honor in 1932, for her book Out of the Flame. Eloise was raised in Paw Paw, Illinois by her parents, Alexander W. and Martha Fisher Lownsbery. She obtained her B.A. degree in 1911 at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and continued on to publish her first book The Boy Knight of Reims

The reason for anger is always fear.

Eloise Lownsbery
- Fear
- Reason
- Anger
Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

Eloise Lownsbery
- Nature
- Fire
- Master

But you must not think I have not cultivated courage as well—one needs a deal of it to live in this world—courage to brook the sneers of my own peers, courage to dare to be different from my class, courage to dream...for this new age, to fling beauty toward the stars!

Eloise Lownsbery
- Dream
- Courage
- Beauty
Each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

Eloise Lownsbery