"I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces……" — Betty Smith
"I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful."
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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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'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'
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And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother…
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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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More Brass Quotes
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one of 109 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the…
— George Clooney
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some…
— Mark Twain
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Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains…
— Ray Liotta
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At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them…
— John Cotton
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
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It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected…
— Stephen Colbert
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