Anglund Quotes & Sayings

Life is in the living. Love is in the giving. — Joan Walsh Anglund

We Built a Castle Near the Rocks,
we built it out of sand.
Our fortress was an ice-cream box
with turret, tall and grand.
Our men were twigs, our gun were straws
from which we'd sipped at lunch.
We had the best of wars ...
till someone's foot
went
CRUNCH!
[Joan Walsh Anglund] — Jack Prelutsky

Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ... with wordless variety ... She spells the name of Love. — Joan Walsh Anglund

We dwell in shadow or in sunlight ... according to our belief. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway. — Jerry Coleman

Where is the yesterday that worried us so. — Joan Walsh Anglund

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 Anglund

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky. — Alice Hoffman

Love comes quietly ... / but you know when it is there ... — Joan Walsh Anglund

I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl. — Christina Aguilera

The greater your character the greater your destiny. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Faith is the staff that will support you over the rockiest terrain. — Joan Walsh Anglund

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. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Friendship is like a rose ... opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds ... day by day it reveals its true beauty. — Joan Walsh Anglund

As interference of two beams of light can strengthen or weaken each other,
then so does religious differences can be truly productive or a total setback. — Toba Beta

Your strength lies in your Hope. Your salvation lies in your Faith. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Politics can be very mean and dirty. The things politicians say about each other, and what activists say, I had a brief glimpse of that for a couple of days. If I ever had any questions about whether I wanted to run for office, I now know the answer - I don't. — Matt Hasselbeck

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. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs. — Joan Walsh Anglund

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college. — Joan Walsh Anglund

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks. — Joan Walsh Anglund

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 Anglund

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived. — Joan Walsh Anglund

A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer-he sings because he has a song. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Color is something we see with our eyes, but love is something we see with our heart. — Joan Walsh Anglund

I didn't think there was someone out there who was capable of really loving me," Miller goes on. "I didn't think there was someone out there who defied everything I knew." He takes a long swig of his drink, keeping his eyes on William, who's shifting uncomfortably on his stool, playing with his glass. "Then I found Olivia Taylor. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another, or even from one lake to another anywhere. A canoe trip has become simply a rite of oneness with certain terrain, a diversion off the field, an art performed not because it is a necessity but because there is value in the art itself. — John McPhee

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break. — Sonia Rykiel

The best way to help yourself is to help someone else. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Between loving friends there need be no secrets ... the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares. — Joan Walsh Anglund

If you go back to the '50s and '60s ... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley ... and it crept northward in early 2000s. — Mitch Kapor