Joan Walsh Anglund quotes
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“Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.”
-- Joan Walsh AnglundSource : Joan Walsh Anglund (1990). “Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems”, Random House Incorporated
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“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.”
-- Joan Walsh AnglundSource : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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“A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.”
-- Joan Walsh AnglundSource : Joan Walsh Anglund (1958). “A Friend is Someone who Likes You”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“In the history of this country [USA], the reason we have never developed a social democratic base, the way they have in Europe - we're the only Western country without some kind of universal health care. There's a reason, and it is because corporate interests have divided the American people by race and ethnicity, the Irish from the blacks, the Germans from the German Jews.”
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“Love comes quietly... / but you know when it is there...”
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“Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.”
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“A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.”
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“Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart.”
-- Joan Walsh AnglundSource : Joan Walsh Anglund (1971). “Do You Love Someone?”, Harcourt Childrens Books
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“Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.”
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“A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.”
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“Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.”
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“Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.”
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“Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.”
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“The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.”
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“Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.”
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“A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.”
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