"I grew up on a dirt road in……" — Elizabeth Strout
"I grew up on a dirt road in Maine, and pretty much everybody on that dirt road was related to me, and they were old. And so grumpy."
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52 Quotes by Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout has 52 quotes on this site.
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The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.
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People like to think the younger generation's job is to steer the world to hell. But it's never true, is…
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Traits don't change, states of mind do.
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The appetites of the body were private battles.
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The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.
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In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To…
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By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone.…
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point…
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He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had…
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a…
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I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted…
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I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means…
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More Dirt Quotes
This quote is filed under Dirt Quotes,
one of 587 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
— Margaret Atwood
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is…
— Alfred Austin
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
— Jo Brand
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'Dirt Road Diaries,' in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I'm…
— Luke Bryan
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I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.
— Luke Bryan
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I'm sort of a Walter Mitty. I got fewer brain cells than most people, so when I got friendly with…
— James Caan
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man,…
— Kirk Cameron
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I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep…
— George Clooney
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Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a…
— Chuck Close
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I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
— Paul Anka
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Paul never developed a negative attitude. He picked his bloody body up out of the dirt and went back into…
— John Hagee
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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
— Jack Nicklaus
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