Pollyanna 1960 Quotes

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. ~ Eleanor Porter

You know, I do have a little Pollyanna in me. ~ Donna McKechnie

Don't be a Pollyanna! ~ Richard Diebenkorn

True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement! ~ Pollyanna Darling

Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards. ~ Pollyanna Darling

Where is the integrity in telling the team they "must have all this done by this date" when you haven't asked the team if it is even possible? ~ Pollyanna Pixton

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type. ~ Dan Savage

I'm not a Pollyanna; I'm a pragmatist. ~ Laura Lang

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I'd have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I'm glad Kurt Vonnegut didn't like me either. He had problems, terrible problems. He couldn't see the world the way I see it. I suppose I'm too much Pollyanna, he was too much Cassandra. Actually I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both. But I don't think I'm too over optimistic. ~ Ray Bradbury

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people. ~ Ann Patchett

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together. ~ Harlan Coben

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful. ~ Christopher Meloni

To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful. ~ Brennan Manning

I'm grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don't know if you're going to see tomorrow. I'm no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice - a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot ... just keep moving. ~ Robin Roberts

Miss Polly actually stamped her foot in irritation. "There you go like the rest," she shouted. "What game?"
At last Nancy told her all about the story of how the crutches arrived instead of a doll, and how Pollyanna's father had taught her that there was always something to be glad about.
Miss Polly couldn't believe it. "how can someone ever be glad of crutches?" she demanded to know.
"Simple" said Nancy. "In Pollyanna's case, she could be glad she didn't need them! ~ Eleanor H. Porter

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. ~ Branford Marsalis

Oh, yet come back, come back to me, beloved; for I repent me of my choice! Come back, and we will creep away together, to some dark and silent grave where the devouring army shall not find us; and we will lay us down there, locked in one another's arms, and sleep, and sleep, and sleep. ~ Voynich E. L. (Ethel Lillian 1864-1960

Then there were her childhood book: Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, What Katy did next, Pollyanna - stories about girls who were good. All Pollyanna had ever done wrong was ruin her parasol. Beth in Little Women was so perfect she was only fit for heaven. Why were girls in novels exemplary, almost saintly? Grace preferred adventure stories, histories and romances about what to do if you were damned and female, tales about women who were kind, likeable and believable, who escaped unpunished. No thin Quakers with lace caps. No beatific consumptives coughing delicately. No unloved, eternally jolly orphans. Grace craved books about girls like herself: good women, normal women in a world bigger and more powerful than themselves. ~ Wendy Jones

What we call absurd is our ignorance. The Winners, 1960 ~ Julio Cortazar

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

Gospel hope keeps us from being muted by being either a naive Pollyanna or a despairing Cassandra. Voices of warning are meant to be heard, not just raised. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna. ~ Bill Ayers

Plea to the early 1960's NY Mets. "Can't anyone here play this game? ~ Fred McMane

None of my films are 'Pollyanna.' They're not little deers walking around with butterflies and stuff. That's not what I do. ~ Corbin Bernsen

Mother of otherness,
Eat me.
--from "Poem for a Birthday - Who", written 1960 ~ Sylvia Plath

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life. ~ Etheridge Knight

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha". ~ David Pietrusza

I looked at her blankly. Adeline seemed way too chipper to have a troubled life. Then again, if you judge by Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, and Pollyanna, the world's most chipperest people were orphans, so go figure" -Melly ~ Lisa Jenn Bigelow

There is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it. ~ Eleanor Porter

Except for food and medical supplies, the United States imposed a total embargo on Cuba on October 19, 1960. ~ Hank Bracker

Considering the Pollyanna optimism he was showing, I wasn't sure about that, but it didn't seem worth arguing about. "All right," I said. "Then I'll check back with you later. I have a crisis at home. ~ Jeff Lindsay

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy. ~ Tracy Pollan

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form - 'English Socialism', ~ George Orwell

Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960. ~ A. Lee Martinez

In fact, I know that a 'nice live little boy' would be far better than - my skeleton in the closet; only - we aren't always willing to make the exchange. We are apt to still cling to - our skeletons, Pollyanna. ~ Eleanor H. Porter

I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy. ~ Ted Danson

I was born on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, in the early spring of 1960. ~ Andre Brink

Dewerman was this bearded 1960's throwback: a Teletubby in tie-dye, suspenders, and thinning hair scraped back into a stringy gray rat. ~ Ilsa J. Bick

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and
impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that. ~ Eleanor Porter

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day. ~ John Langdon-Davies

A life spent waiting for your paycheck, measured out in work hours...A lifetime spent buying everything retail while selling oneself wholesale - L'amour Existe (1960) ~ Maurice Pialat

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and ... there is no rational explanation for it. - Eugene Wigner, 1960 ~ Max Tegmark

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960. ~ Charles Murray

Yes, 1960's North American sitcoms have led me to study the United States 1920's and 1930's crime bosses - QET Jenkins ~ Kim Welsman

They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened
Exodus (1960) screenplay ~ Dalton Trumbo

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. ~ Cathleen Schine

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. ~ Fred Saberhagen

After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison. ~ Sushil Koirala

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean. ~ Christina Baldwin

I floor the gas pedal. The Sonoramic Commando V-8 growls like an angry tiger and leapfrogs us ahead of the traffic. ~ Daven Anderson

Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb. From 1960's, when I first start singing. ~ Bob Marley

Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures. ~ Weegee

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers. ~ Anita Roddick

Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was. ~ Glenn Beck

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. ~ Jim Lehrer

The pill" was first approved for prescription use in the United States in June 1960. By 1967, an estimated five million American women were taking the pills every month.4 ~ Nancy Howell Lee

But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. ~ Kate Morton

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. ~ Tom Udall

The power to concentrate exists in everyone, but few people can concentrate sufficiently to drive a motor car with complete mastery in all circumstances.
Roadcraft The Police Driver's Manual, 1960 ~ Lesley Thomson

I made a record album in 1960 and it exploded, and I got all these offers for TV. ~ Bob Newhart

We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now. ~ Pat Boone

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. ~ Donald E. Westlake

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available ... in America right now. ~ Merle Haggard

Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's. ~ John Hutton

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964. ~ John E. Walker

We pride ourselves on our democratic traditions, but in Canada, women couldn't vote until 1918, Asians until 1948, and First Nations people living on reserves until 1960. ~ David Suzuki

I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8. ~ Christopher Buckley

When I started at XCRF in 1960, Mexico was the most lenient country in the world when it came to radio. ~ Wolfman Jack

The candidates we have in this campaign are ... the most accomplished, in terms of public service, that we've had since 1960. One of them will be successful. ~ Hillary Clinton

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work. ~ John Doar

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so. ~ Igor Sikorsky

The world's many mysteries fascinate me and inspire in me a hope so profound that I suppose, if I were to express it sincerely and at length in a manuscript more bluntly philosophical than this one, any normal person, those who walk freely in daylight, would find it the work of a Pollyanna and worthy only of ridicule. ~ Dean Koontz

We have to support each other's tired nerves, I know that sounds so Pollyanna, but really ... Mommy groups can be amazing, but haven't you ever gone to one and felt like you are back in high school, totally on the outside of the 'cool kids' club? I totally have! ~ Marissa Jaret Winokur

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute. ~ Ian Anderson

I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow. ~ Bob Schieffer

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life. ~ Virginia Postrel

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong. ~ John Hurt

All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl. ~ S.J Perelman

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960. ~ Sanjeev Bhaskar

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He's a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, 'I wake up like this. I'm Pollyanna Sunshine, and I'm not for everyone'. ~ Geneva Carr

In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors. ~ Mario J. Molina

The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percent of the size of the labor force in 1960 to 5.3% in 2010. ~ Charles Murray

When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose. ~ Alan Cheuse

One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time ... around 1960 or so. ~ Roger McGuinn

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. ~ Kazuo Ishiguro

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect. ~ John Updike

The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, ... There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer. ~ Lawrence Stone

In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home. ~ Mickey Mantle

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, A History of Nazi Germany, by William L. Shirer, Simon and Schuster, 1960, New York; Hitler, a Study in Tyranny, by Alan Bullock, Harper, 1953, New York; ~ Philip K. Dick

Until the end of the 1960's I do not recall ever seriously exchanging ideas with an articulate conservative. They were there, but not on my scope. I systematically avoided any contact with those who would have challenged my ideology. ~ Thomas C. Oden

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be. ~ Michael D. Higgins

I was born in 1960 into a more violent America than we had in 2014. We haven't been in such a good place for more than 50 years. ~ James Comey

I know what happened to you sucks and I'm not gonna give you some Pollyanna shit about everything happens for a reason or this was gods gift to make you strong cause if anybody said that to me i would punch them right in the mouth. But all you can do at a time like this is just hang out until the scenery changes. ~ QUEER AS FOLK

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me. ~ Earle Birney

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them - in fact, better than some of the astronauts did. ~ Henry Spencer

In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water. ~ Rose George

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960. ~ Russell Smith

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ~ Michael Beschloss

I was born in 1960 and can still tell you the name of every astronaut from Mercury to Apollo. If I had a chance, I'd love to go into space on one of the privately developed space crafts. ~ Eric Betzig