Quotes by Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee

‘These boat people,’ says the government of Hong Kong, ‘they all want to go to America.’ Well, I swear I don’t know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don’t they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

America

Government

Mean

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I’ve never been properly hugged since.

Father

Friendship

Thinking

A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling “Hey, come back here with my breast!”

Dog

Play

Yelling

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

Good Times

Laughing

Laughter

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Guests

Life

Tables

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Change

Like You

Youth

Co-dependence…taking someone else’s temperature to see how you feel.

Feels

How You Feel

Temperature

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

Fancy

Information

Polish

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I’ve worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

Feelings

Knows

Learning

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

Abortion

Choices

World

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Beauty

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Brain

Campfire

Change

Cheerleading

Choices

Colonels

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Differences

Doe

Dog

Equality

Fancy

Father

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Friendship

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Games

Goes On

Good Times

Gossip

Government

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How You Feel

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Jesus

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Quotes by Linda Ellerbee

Linda Ellerbee

‘These boat people,’ says the government of Hong Kong, ‘they all want to go to America.’ Well, I swear I don’t know why, do you? I mean, take Vietnam. Why would any Vietnamese come to America after what American did to Vietnam? Don’t they remember My Lai, napalm, Sylvester Stallone?

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I’ve never been properly hugged since.

A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling “Hey, come back here with my breast!”

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Co-dependence…taking someone else’s temperature to see how you feel.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I’ve worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

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