New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful… — Betty Smith Cities Copy Share Image
“When I grow up and know that I am going to have a baby, I will remember to walk proud and slow.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no… — Betty Smith Adversity Copy Share Image
“Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were… — Betty Smith Emotion Copy Share Image
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing, something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it… — Betty Smith Being happy Copy Share Image
“Somehow during their aimless but oh-so-significant conversation with its delicious pauses and thrilling undercurrents of emotion, they came to know that they… — Betty Smith Communication Copy Share Image
“Growing up spoiled a lot of things. It spoiled the nice game they had when there was nothing to eat in the… — Betty Smith Big things Copy Share Image
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think… — Betty Smith Advice Copy Share Image
“A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment,… — Betty Smith Compassion Copy Share Image
“But there was no music in the children. Evy took the bull by the horns. They would have to love music whether… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
“This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food… — Betty Smith Life Copy Share Image
“Mama made the coach stop at a barber shop around the corner from their house. 'Go in there,' she told Francie, 'and… — Betty Smith Around the corner Copy Share Image
“Someone has to lose and it's just as apt to be you as the other fellow.” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think… — Betty Smith Time Copy Share Image
“But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything you talked about could come true!” — betty smith Copy Share Image
She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been… — Betty Smith Bigger Copy Share Image
Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man. — Betty Smith Every man Copy Share Image
“And why not? I’ve always written what you asked me to write.” — Betty Smith Writing Copy Share Image
No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me. — Betty Smith Needs Copy Share Image
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live. — Betty Smith Inspirational Copy Share Image
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death… — Betty Smith Death Copy Share Image
“You're not to cry for him,' ordered Mama. Her next words had no sense either. 'He's out of it now and maybe… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“MOST CHILDREN BROUGHT UP IN BROOKLYN BEFORE THE FIRST World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the… — Betty Smith Children Copy Share Image
