Malvina Reynolds Quotes

#1. And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

Malvina Reynolds

#2. Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red."

Malvina Reynolds

#3. God Bless the grass That grows through the crack They roll the concrete over it To try and keep it back The concrete gets tired Of what it has to do It breaks and it buckles And the grass grows through. God bless the grass

Malvina Reynolds

#4. And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp,
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

Malvina Reynolds

#5. Some other eyes will look around, and find the things I've never found.

Malvina Reynolds

#6. I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

Malvina Reynolds

#7. Love is something, if you give it away, you end up having more.

Malvina Reynolds

#8. Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.

Malvina Reynolds