Raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak...
No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the w...
His motto: Screw the little people. He had lied before, and he would lie again. Ethics were for suckers.
He was worried about his country. Something was rotting from the inside—a slow decay of what was right and wrong. It was as if hundreds of cynical little rats were chewing at its very fiber, gnawing a...
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
Grandma Harper has two green bottles shaped like women with black hair painted on their heads and a yellow glass colored captain's hat that she keeps her face powder in that I want too, and a picture...
Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
Rejoice for a comrade deceased,Our loss is his infinite gain, A soul out of prison released, And free from its bodily chain.~Smokey Lonesome
Newly formed group of women fliers known as the WASPs. Female pilots were desperately needed to ferry planes and supplies around the United States and free up the men for combat duty.
It would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after a...
And putting
Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. You...
You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
You know, it’s funny what you’ll miss when you’re away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee … and bacon frying in the morning.
When someone old dies, it is even sadder. First you notice that the paper doesn’t come anymore, then gradually the lights are turned out, the gas turned off, the house gets locked up, and the yard is...