Quotes About Patience

Ramona could not understand why grown-ups always talked about how quickly children grew up. Ramona thought growing up was the slowest thing there was, slower even than waiting for Christmas to come. She had been waiting years just to get to kindergarten, and the last half hour was the slowest part of all.

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No family is perfect. Get that idea out of your head. And nobody is perfect either. All we can do is work at it. And we do.

She's playing she's waiting for a bus," explained Beezus. Henry groaned. It was the dumbest game he had ever heard of.

We can't always do what we want in life, answered her father, so we do the best we can.

Now if he could only keep him quiet for fifteen minutes they would be home and Ribsy would be his for keeps.

Ramona, who did not mean to pester her mother, could not see why grown-ups had to be so slow.

Mrs. Quimby nibbled at her salad and glanced at her watch.

at least not all the time.

control and to keep your hands to yourself. There are all kinds of teachers in the world just as there are all kinds of other people, and you must learn to get along with them. Maybe Mrs. Griggs doesn't understand how you feel, but you aren't always easy to understand. Did you ever think of that?

Ramona understood what Beezus meant, because she felt sad too, and her stomach felt tight when her father came home tired and discouraged after a day in the checkout line. People were in a hurry, many were cross because the line was long, and some customers acted as if he were to blame because prices were so high.

and we could see how it works out.

Maybe grown-ups weren't perfect, but they should be, her parents most of all. They should be cheerful, loving, patient, never sick and never tired. Fun too.

Figuring out the long word before her name took a while, and

A girl shouldn't hold a baked stuffed onion against a boy forever.

Never again would he stand all day at a cash register, ringing up groceries for a long line of people who were always in a hurry. Ramona

Never again would he stand all day at a cash

But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For a brief, proud period I was slender and fit. I gained a profound respect for the wilderness and nature and the benign dark power of woods. I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn't know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you plod, you are always in the same place: in the woods.

When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.

As I always used to tell Thomas Wolfe, there are three things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge. There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you trod you are always in the same place - in the woods. It's where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow.

The history of any one part of the Earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.

Sometimes the world just isn't ready for a good idea.