"And you must tell the child the legends……" — Betty Smith
"And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people..."
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Betty Smith
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93 Quotes by Betty Smith
Betty Smith has 93 quotes on this site.
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded…
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'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
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Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence.…
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I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a…
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All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to…
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The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
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If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your…
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She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower…
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No. I don't want to need anybody. I want someone to need me ... I want someone to need me.
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Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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