Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Porter
Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porterwas an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth19 December 1868
CountryUnited States of America
hunting long enough
... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
different folks
I love different folks.
breathing
Just breathing isn't living!
mother husband tired
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 married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
relationship childhood pollyanna
My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
games matter pollyanna
Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas
fun play lovely
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!
aunt pollyanna havens
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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!
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.
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.
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.
book light golden
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
beautiful heart character
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.