Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.
I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.
You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
The ones that hurt the most always say the least.
Face it girls. I’m older and I have more insurance.
I’m telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it’s worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.
Churches were shut down and Stanislaw’s father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.
Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
Don’t give up before the miracle happens.
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it’s not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
You never know what’s in a person’s heart until they’re tested, do you?
The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person’s culture.
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
I believe in God, but I don’t think you have to go crazy to prove it.
Hazel always used to say There’s not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
You’re just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That’s what you are, a bee charmer.