“If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, quote from Make Lemonade
“Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, quote from Make Lemonade
“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, quote from Make Lemonade
“If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, quote from Make Lemonade
“How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, quote from Make Lemonade
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Born place: in Portland, The United States
Born date August 25, 1937
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“With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, quote from Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Whitney, My Love
“Djed je rekao da je puno bolje pokazati čovjeku kako si sam može pomoći, nego dati mu nešto. Jer ako naučiš čovjeka kako da si sam pomogne, onda će se on dalje sam brinuti za sebe i biti neovisan; ali ako mu samo nešto daš i ničemu ga ne naučiš, onda mu moraš do kraja života i dalje davati. Time tom čovjeku činiš medvjeđu uslugu, jer ako postane ovisan o tebi, ukrao si mu karakter.
Po djedovim riječima, neki ljudi vole stalno poklanjati siromašnima jer tada mogu dignuti nos i vjerovati kako su oni nešto bolje nego onaj kojem pomažu; umjesto da nauče siromaha nečemu što bi ga učinilo neovisnim.
„A pošto je ljudska priroda takva kakva jest“, rekao je djed, „uvijek će biti onih koji koriste spoznaju da neki vole dizati nos na taj način. Postanu tako jadni da su voljni biti pas svakom gospodaru koji ih je voljan uzdržavati. Tako se nisko spuste da radije budu pseto gospodina Nadmoćnog, nego svoj čovjek. I onda stalno kukaju i žale se kako im je teško i što im sve fali. A pritom im fali jedna jedina stvar - dobra lekcija i to udarcem noge u guzicu.“
I neki narodi, govorio je djed, dižu nos jer misle da su bolji od drugih, pa drugima daju pomoć, tako da bi sebe mogli nazivati silama. A da imaju srce na pravom mjestu, naučili bi narode kojima „pomažu“ kako će se brinuti sami za sebe. Djed je rekao da bogati narodi to ne žele učiniti jer onda siromašni narodi ne bi više bili ovisni o njima, a to im je zapravo bio cilj.”
― Forrest Carter, quote from The Education of Little Tree
“The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you'd rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Witches Abroad
“The world is always outside. And it is in the world that we must live.”
― Lian Hearn, quote from Across the Nightingale Floor
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