Pollyanna Grows Up Quotes

“But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“But, poor little kid, it's too bad you should find it out - so soon."
"Find out what?"
"That the lonesomest place in all the world is in a crowd in a big city.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22)”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“troubles are poor things to hug. They've got too many prickers.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“you know you never know how much you use things, till you don't have 'em. And eyes, too. Did you ever think what a lot you do with eyes? I didn't till I went to the Sanatorium. There was a lady there who had just got blind the year before. I tried to get her to play the game—finding something to be glad about, you know—but she said she couldn't; and if I wanted to know why, I might tie up my eyes with my handkerchief for just one hour. And I did. It was awful. Did you ever try it?”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“I don't see how you can find anything about this poor-people business to be glad for. Of course we can be glad for ourselves that we aren't poor like them; but whenever I'm thinking how glad I am for that, I get so sorry for them that I CAN'T be glad any longer. Of course we COULD be glad there were poor folks, because we could help them. But if we DON'T help them, where's the glad part of that coming in?”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“It's a bother, of course, when folks do want you all the time, isn't it?—'cause you can't have yourself when you want yourself, lots of times. Still, you can be kind of glad for that, for it IS nice to be wanted, isn't it?”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem;
  There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground
  But holds some joy, of silence or of sound.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“The instrument that you play on, Pollyanna, will be the great heart of the world; and to me that seems the most wonderful instrument of all—to learn. Under your touch, if you are skilful, it will respond with smiles or tears, as you will.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“My! but don't I just love to ride in these things," exulted Pollyanna, with a happy little bounce. "You see I never did before, except the one that ran over me. They put me IN that one after they'd got me out from under it; but of course I didn't know about it, so I couldn't enjoy it. Since then I haven't been in one at all. Aunt Polly doesn't like them.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up, with Biographical Introduction

“Into the eyes of those she met Pollyanna smiled joyously. She was disappointed—but not surprised—that she received no answering smile in return. She was used to that now—in Boston. She still smiled, however, hopefully: there might be some one, sometime, who would smile back.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“Antes, quando eu estava contente com as coisas, eu era feliz. Mas agora, com o Jamie... Eu estou contente por ter tapetes, quadros, coisas boas para comer, que eu posso andar e correr, ir para a escola e tudo mais. Mas quanto mais eu estou feliz por mim mesma, mais triste eu sou por ele.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Poliana moça

“(...) é melhor, ou até mesmo tão bom, reunir um monte de gente para fazer o que todo mundo gostaria de fazer por si mesmo. Tenho certeza de que prefiro dar a Jamie um... Um bom livro agora, do que ter uma instituição que o faça, e sei que ele gostaria que eu também fizesse isso. [Pollyana à Sra. Carew]”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Poliana moça

“Oh, Pollyanna, Pollyanna, to think of the Harrington homestead ever coming to this!" "It isn't, dearie," Pollyanna at last soothed laughingly. "It's the
Carews that are COMING TO THE HARRINGTON HOMESTEAD!”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up

“I tell you, troubles are poor things to hug. They've got to many pickers.”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna Grows Up