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...
I’m too young to be old and too old to be young. I
If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.
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...
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
No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.
Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher’s wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the paris...
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
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...
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...
They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn’t been for him we’d all still be sitting here in the dark, with no...
Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.
It’s funny, when you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis.
Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!
Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent.
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.