31 Quotes by Ernest J. Gaines

Plege legen toda flag. Ninety state. ‘Merica. Er – er – yeah, which it stand. Visibly. Amen.

You wanted the past changed, Reverend Martin,” she told him. “Even He can’t do that. So that leaves nothing but the future. We work toward the future.

The heavier the burden, the longer they look at you. And Miss Julie looked at me a long, long time.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard you work, how much you love, they catch you off guard one day and break you.