What had granma Mary Rommely said? To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow..
When it first appeared, in 1943, it was called, by those critics who liked it, an honest book, and that is accurate as far as it goes. But it is more than that: It is deeply, indelibly true. Honesty i...
You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
The reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from anyone else in the two families. It was what God or wha...
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and ke...
A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and kee...
After Election, the politicians forgot their promises and enjoyed an earned rest until New Year, when they started work on the next Election.
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life it's in him to live.
An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree.
Francie loved the smell of coffee and the way it was hot. As she ate her bread and meat, she kept one hand curved about the cup enjoying its warmth. From time to time, she’d smell the bitter sweetness...
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