Quotes by Gloria Whelan - Page 1

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.
Gloria Whelan / Poet
Car
Passports
World
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It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.
Gloria Whelan / Poet
Giving
Giving Up
Knows
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I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.
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Get Better
Ifs
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But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.
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Dies
Ends
Giving
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I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.
Gloria Whelan / Poet
Littles
Understood
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You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.
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Feelings
Guilt
Important
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People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.
Gloria Whelan / Poet
Long
Past
People
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They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.
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Book
Talking
World
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Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.
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Balls
Bird
Team
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I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.
Gloria Whelan / Poet
Snakes
Toads
Waiting
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I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.
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Making Friends
School
Secret
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I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.
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Brother
Hate
Remember
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But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.
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Children
Cooking
House
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