34 Quotes by Reynolds Price

The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

Strength just comes in one brand – you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed.

Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they’d tell you what’s hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They’ll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.