Quotes by Jean Webster

Jean Webster

… in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I’m also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now — I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.

Fall

Heart

Running

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

Children

Growing Up

Unhappy

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

Crush

Laughing

Thinking

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Details

Eye

Perspective

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

Daddy

Important

Long

Everybody likes a few surprises; it’s a perfectly natural human craving.

Likes

Perfectly Natural

Surprise

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Process

Half of the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.

Half

Past

Talking

He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it’s dreadful when two people’s senses of humour are antagonistic. I don’t believe there’s any bridging that gulf! And he is–Oh, well! He is just himself, and I miss him, and miss him, and miss him. The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the moonlight because it’s beautiful and he isn’t here to see it with me. But maybe you’ve loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don’t need to explain; if you haven’t, I can’t explain.

Beautiful

Believe

Hate

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father’s side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there’s a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Father

Hair

Mother

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Hair

Half

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Hate

Heart

Heaven

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Husband

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Long Legs

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Quotes by Jean Webster

Jean Webster

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

Everybody likes a few surprises; it’s a perfectly natural human craving.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Half of the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father’s side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there’s a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

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