Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porterwas an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth19 December 1868
CountryUnited States of America
relationship childhood pollyanna
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
beautiful heart character
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
book thoughtful men
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
sleep night might
You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
ends given beginnings-and-endings
It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
encouragement real heart
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, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
dog cat pet
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
brave december be-good
Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
book light golden
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
father eight ems
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 God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.
aunt pollyanna havens
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
long-ago trying sound
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.
sides plates courses
Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
monday thinking week
I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!