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 and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.
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… - Fannie Flagg
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…
- Fannie Flagg
Don't give up before the miracle happens. - Fannie Flagg
Don't give up before the miracle happens.
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… - Fannie Flagg
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…
You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer. - Fannie Flagg
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. - Fannie Flagg
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.
You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you? - Fannie Flagg
You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. - Fannie Flagg
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. - Fannie Flagg
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. - Fannie Flagg
I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
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