Top 100 Quotes About Jeannette
#1. He would almost call this feeling for
jeannette hate, if he were not so afraid it was love.
Karen Harper
#2. 'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.
Sara Shepard
#3. You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.
Jeannette Walls
#4. Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".
Jeannette Walls
#5. You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.
Jeannette Walls
#6. We both stood a better chance if we took on the world together.
Jeannette Walls
#7. It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
Jeannette Walls
#8. It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.
Jeannette Rankin
#9. Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
Jeannette Walls
#10. As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.
Jeannette Walls
#11. I'm not so sure," Dad said. "Every damn thing in the universe can be broken down into smaller things, even atom, even protons, so theoretically speaking, I guess you had a winning case. A collection of things should be considered one thing. Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.
Jeannette Walls
#12. I'm none too big on giving advice,'
Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.
Jeannette Walls
#13. And if the world went to hell in a handbasket-as it seemed to be doing-you could say good-bye to everyone and retreat to your land, hunkering down and living off it.
Jeannette Walls
#14. The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. It was the distinction that mattered the most, practically the only one that did matter. But I knew that boys were dangerous. They'd say they loved you, but they were always after something.
Jeannette Walls
#15. Everyone seemed to think that violence was an acceptable risk and a foregone conclusion for prostitutes, call girls and streetwalkers alike. There was almost an air of, well, what did she expect? What did she expect, indeed? To be allowed to live?
Jeannette De Beauvoir
#16. If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
Jeannette Walls
#17. Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
Jeannette Walls
#18. A little while after we'd moved into the depot, we heard Mom and Dad talking about buying us kids real beds, and we said they shouldn't do it. We liked our boxes. They made going to bed seem like an adventure.
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Jeannette Walls
#20. Phoenix was square and straight, boxy and boxed in, and above all, fake.
Jeannette Walls
#21. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.
Jeannette Walls
#22. You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.
Jeannette Walls
#23. The most disappointing feature of working for a cause is that so few people have a philosophy of life. We used to say, in the suffrage movement, that we could trust the woman who believed in suffrage, but we could never trust the woman who just wanted to vote.
Jeannette Rankin
#24. If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
Jeannette Walls
#25. I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
Jeannette Walls
#26. You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.
Jeannette Walls
#27. I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.
Jeannette Walls
#28. If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
Jeannette Walls
#29. So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups claimed were made by little elves wearing bell caps in their workshop at the North Pole actually had labels on them saying MADE IN JAPAN.
Jeannette Walls
#30. Once you start your exercise routine and you include in your daily diet foods rich in calcium and potassium, you will start losing weight in about a week
Jeannette Murueta
#31. Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!
Jeannette Rankin
#32. God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
Jeannette Walls
#33. He said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.
Jeannette Walls
#34. Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste.
Jeannette Walls
#35. We had some times, didn't we?'
'We did.'
'Never did build that Glass Castle.'
'No. But we had fun planning it.
Jeannette Walls
#36. When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#37. War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Jeannette Rankin
#39. When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.
Jeannette Walls
#40. Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
Jeannette Walls
#42. I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.
Jeannette Walls
#43. It is also possible, I believe, if one lives in India long enough, to come across a globe-trotter who is modest and teachable, but we have been out here only twenty-two years, and I am going home without having seen one.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#46. Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper.
Jeannette Walls
#47. The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.
Jeannette Walls
#50. I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.
Jeannette Walls
#51. That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.
Jeannette Walls
#52. Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.
Jeannette Rankin
#54. Don't hate anything, because that's exactly what you'll get
Jeannette Katzir
#55. Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
Jeannette Walls
#57. What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming, and there was only one way to deal with it: by climbing aboard.
Jeannette Walls
#58. There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could push you off it, no one could take it from you, no one could tell you what to do with it.
Jeannette Walls
#60. I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.
Jeannette Walls
#61. Life's too short to worry about what other people think,' Mom said.'Anyway, they should accept us for who we are.
Jeannette Walls
#62. The place where you live - your home - is one of the most important things in a body's life.
Jeannette Walls
#63. It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.
Jeannette Walls
#64. Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Jeannette Walls
#66. I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
Jeannette Walls
#67. I became known as Lily Casey, the mustang-breaking, poker-playing, horse-race-winning schoolmarm of Coconino County, and it wasn't half bad to be in place where no one had a problem with a woman having a moniker like that.
Jeannette Walls
#69. Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
Jeannette Walls
#70. But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
Jeannette Walls
#73. We often say that we fear no invasion from the south, but the armies of the south have already crossed the border - American enterprise, American capital is taking rapid possession of our mines and our water power, our oil areas and our timber limits.
Sara Jeannette Duncan
#74. Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
Jeannette Walls
#77. Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.
Jeannette Walls
#78. Helen and Buster got down and started praying with Mom, but I just stood there looking at them. The way I saw it, I was the one who'd saved us all, not Mom and not some guardian angel.
Jeannette Walls
#79. I've told you before, life's not about doing what you want.
Jeannette Walls
#80. Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?
Jeannette Walls
#81. You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said.
You got that right," I told him.
Jeannette Walls
#82. I was in control of what people thought of me, but I had no control over what they thought of my mother. When I asked my mother, 'How do I tell people about you?' her answer was, 'Tell the truth'. But of course, the truth is never simple.
Jeannette Walls
#84. If you went back far enough, Uncle Tinsley went on, just about
Jeannette Walls
#85. Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
Jeannette Walls
#86. My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.
Jeannette Walls
#87. You were free to choose enslavement, but the choice was a free one only if you knew what your alternatives were.
Jeannette Walls
#89. My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
Jeannette Walls
#90. she entered the room, clean and dressed, he turned to greet her. A smile lit his face as he looked her over from top to bottom. She gave a little spin and asked, "How do I look?" She knew what he thought, but wanted to hear the answer anyway.
Jeannette Winters
#91. I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.
Jeannette Walls
#92. I'm a grown woman now," Mom said almost every morning. "Why can't I do what I want to do?
Jeannette Walls
#93. You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
Jeannette Rankin
#94. I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won't be the last.
Jeannette Rankin
#97. Bought me another snow cone, and, as he gave it to me, planted a diamond ring on top. "A piece of ice that I'm hoping will make you melt," he said.
Jeannette Walls
#98. In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.
Jeannette Walls
#99. No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
Jeannette Walls
#100. When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
Jeannette Walls
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