Eleanor Porter Quotes

15 quotes in 191 categories

• I love different folks. Different Folks
• One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being… Day
• My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. Childhood
• Be glad. Be good. Be brave. Brave
• Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. All
• What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults,… Better
• It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard! Fun
• Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas Find
• Just breathing isn't living! Breathing
• Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if… Better
• It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? Better
• ... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME. Eight
• ... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it. Find

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