Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Gloria Whelan

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Gloria Whelan.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Gloria Whelan is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist known primarily for children's and young adult fiction. She won the annual National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2000 for the novel Homeless Bird. She also won the 2013 Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction for her short story What World Is This? and the work became the title for the independent publisher's 2013 collection of short stories.

American - Novelist | Born: November 23, 1923

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They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world.

Gloria Whelan

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

Gloria Whelan

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

Gloria Whelan

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

Gloria Whelan

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.

Gloria Whelan

But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

Gloria Whelan

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

Gloria Whelan

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Gloria Whelan

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

Gloria Whelan

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes.

Gloria Whelan

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.

Gloria Whelan

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

Gloria Whelan

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

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Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Gloria Whelan

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