Quotes by : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Hit don’t make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o’ churches. There’s the Nazarene....

We were bred of earth before we were bred of our mothers. Once born, we can live without mother or father,....

He could understand that the creatures, the fish and the owls, should feed and frolic at moon-rise, at....

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

In the beginning of his sleep, he cried out, "Flag!"It was not his own voice that called. It was a boy's....

He edged closer to his father’s bones and sinews. Penny slipped an arm around him and he lay close....

Grandma Hutto’s flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. ... We are....

Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the....