Ann B. Ross Quotes

#1. I am a Christian, you know, Julia.'
So am I. But I'm not above staying out of jail any way I can.

Ann B. Ross

#2. A good wife always encourages her husband in his interests. For one thing, they keep him occupied and out from under foot most of the day.

Ann B. Ross

#3. We don't wanta lose that little baby. Miss Hazel Marie might think she don't want it, but she do. If she lose it, she be worse upset than if she don't. When the Lord send a baby, he send the wantin', too.

Ann B. Ross

#4. There is no virtue in doing something for someone else when it's something you also want to do. That's merely being helpful, but it's hardly commendable. The real virtue is in doing something you don't want to do, but doing it because someone else wants it.

Ann B. Ross

#5. Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

Ann B. Ross

#6. Have you ever noticed how the one who wants to please never does?

Ann B. Ross

#7. Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air.

Ann B. Ross

#8. I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Ann B. Ross

#9. I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

Ann B. Ross

#10. You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into.

Ann B. Ross