Fannie Flagg Quotes

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.

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• In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Job
  • Opinion

• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Future

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• I don't think you can judge something without seeing it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Seeing

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
  • Happiness

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Live
  • Love
  • Discrimination

• When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • People
  • Want
  • Pressure

• Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick
  • Player
  • Never
  • Charge

• The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Beautiful

• In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.

  

  Anthony DeCurtis
  • Model
  • Audience
  • Behavior

• I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

  

  John Doolittle
  • Time
  • America
  • Lost

• 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
  • Home
  • Free
  • Die