You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?.

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers a….

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture..

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer..

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?.

Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of….

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same..

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in..

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 th….

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….

Don't give up before the miracle happens..

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer..

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..

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome..

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them..

I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with..

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do..

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that pe….

People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be so….

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle..

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 g….