Ellen Glasgow was a famous Novelist from USA, who lived between March 22, 1874 and November 21, 1945. He/she became 71 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious.
Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Ellen, under the main topics: Change - Women - Birthday.
20 Famous quotes by Ellen Glasgow
"He knows so little and knows it so fluently"
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward"
"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens"
"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins"
"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do"
"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it"
"No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it"
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated"
"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away"
"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book"
"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance"
"Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity"
"I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living"
"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted"
"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say"
"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting"
"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me"
"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice"
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions"
