22 Quotes by Michael Lee West

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.

He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.

Now that Olive was grown, I didn't know what to do with myself. You could build your life around one single thing, like a view or a child, but that was risky. You had so much to lose.

It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

Everybody's always doing the same old things--- you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.

You raise them half-decent, and they grow up and leave. They move to Miami or California-- someplace with gourmet groceries and nude beaches because you've reared them to cook good and be liberal minded. It's just the opposite with your failures-- them kids stick to your tail like a cocklebur. You'd think it would be the other way around, but it's not. No matter how old I get, this will always amaze me.