264 Quotes by Betty Smith

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.

Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.

It takes a lot of doing to die.

As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone.