Quote

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

Eleanor Porter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Eleanor Porter
Age: 51 †
Born: 1868
Born: December 19
Died: 1920
Died: May 21
Novelist
Writer
Littleton
New Hampshire
Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter
Havens
Haven
Left
Live
Time
Polly
Pollyanna
Aunt

More quotes by Eleanor Porter

Image
'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He 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 to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.
Eleanor Porter
Image
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.
Eleanor Porter
Image
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!
Eleanor Porter
Image
... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
Eleanor Porter
Image
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor Porter
Image
My relationship with Pollyanna is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
Eleanor Porter
Image
It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
Eleanor Porter
Image
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
Eleanor Porter
Image
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
Eleanor Porter
Image
Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
Eleanor Porter