Verlasse etwas für jemanden, aber verlasse nie jemanden für etwas.
Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
Fünf Freunde - Five on a Hike Together
Kritik von Leuten über zwölf interessiert mich überhaupt nicht.
Für Kinder zu schreiben ist eine Kunst für sich, und zwar eine sehr interessante.
Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
Du hast kein Recht etwas zu behalten, um das du dich nicht kümmern kannst.
If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
Hass ist so viel leichter zu gewinnen als Liebe - und so viel schwieriger, ihn wieder loszuwerden.
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
Fünf Freunde - Five Have a Mystery to Solve
I don't know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors.
Fünf Freunde - Five Go Off in a Caravan
Der beste Weg, Hindernisse zu überwinden, ist, sie als Trittsteine zu verwenden. Lache über sie, betrete sie uns lass dich zu etwas Besserem führen.
The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
The Circus Series - Mr Galliano's Circus
1Wir versuchen, vor Schwierigkeiten davon zu laufen. Doch man kann ihnen nicht entfliehen - man muss sich mit ihnen konfrontieren und sie bekämpfen.
You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
The Barney Mysteries - The Rubadub Mystery
The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
The Barney Mysteries - The Rubadub Mystery
"Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!" said Jimmy longingly. "How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!"
The Circus Series - Mr Galliano's Circus
The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.
The Circus Series - Mr Galliano's Circus
