Children Quote by Nancy Thayer

“Honestly, Bessie? People don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't notice anything. They are never looking at what's interesting. They're always looking at…

— Kevin Wilson

“Bessie- A man picking out a wife is like asking a cow to pick out a farmer.”

— Margaret Brownley

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

— Ma Rainey

“One of Bessie's cousins drew his bow,”

— Leah Laurens

“Come, Miss Jane, don’t cry,' said Bessie…She might as well have said to the fire, ‘don’t burn!”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I keep forgetting to answer to Dorothy.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“If Granny were alive and well in the closet, why didn't she say anything when her granddaughter was struggling with the difference between a…

— Vivian Vande Velde Cloaked in Red

“Nature answers only when she is questioned.”

— Jacob Henle

“I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to…

— Paulo Coelho

“Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she…

— Nancy E. Turner

“She seemed to like best my daughter, Pegeen's, paintings, though when I made the observation that the people in Pegeen's paintings, strangely enough, never…

— Peggy Guggenheim

“Her grandmother had once told her that one of life's best lessons was not being afraid to look foolish -- to just ask the…

— Melissa Senate