Quotes by : Betty Smith

Because," explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination.....

...May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That....

Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants.....

Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?""They're beanies.""They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn.""But....

Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?"....

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing....

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling....

Her time has come," answered Miss Lizzie. "That's why I didn't marry Harvey - long ago when he asked....

It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.....

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence.....