Top 100 Fannie Quotes
#1. Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.
Fannie Flagg
#2. By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.
Fannie Flagg
#3. Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.
Fannie Flagg
#4. I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.
Fannie Hurst
#5. I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
Fannie Flagg
#6. When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become the Democratic Party that now is the party of the African-American community?"
Leah D. Daughtry
#7. Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
Fannie Flagg
#8. Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.
Fannie Flagg
#9. All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?
Fannie Flagg
#10. There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#11. Black people know what white people mean when they say "law and order".
Fannie Lou Hamer
#12. In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
Fannie Flagg
#13. I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.
Fannie Flagg
#14. The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder ...
Fannie Lou Hamer
#15. There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.
Fannie Flagg
#16. I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#17. Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.
Fannie Flagg
#18. it was Elner who gave me my first cat, after I had my breakdown, when I told her the doctor said I needed Prozac. She said, 'Tot, sometimes what you need is a kitten,' and you know, she was right.
Fannie Flagg
#19. The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
Fannie Flagg
#20. Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
Fannie Flagg
#21. Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.
Fannie Flagg
#22. Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
J. C. Watts
#23. It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.
Fannie Hurst
#24. Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#26. I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise
Fannie Flagg
#27. I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
William J. Clinton
#28. And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.
Franklin Raines
#29. After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.
Fannie Flagg
#30. If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.
Fannie Flagg
#31. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt.
John Thune
#32. Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual,
Fannie Flagg
#33. Mildred had had a few men friends after that, but she never really loved any of them. None could ever compete with the one that got away.
Fannie Flagg
#34. It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.
Fannie Heaslip Lea
#35. Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.
Fannie Flagg
#36. The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.
Fannie Flagg
#37. How do you know if you're making the right decision?
Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.
Fannie Flagg
#38. I feel sorry for anybody who would let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.
- Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer
Deborah Wiles
#39. Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.
Fannie Hurst
#40. Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.
Alex Berenson
#41. I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer
#42. If I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#43. I guess if I'd had any sense, I'd have been a little scared [to register to vote] - but what was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do was kill me, and it kinda seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time since I could remember.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#44. The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ...
Fannie Hurst
#45. We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support.
Timothy Geithner
#46. Lenore had pushed her into had been a complete disaster.
Fannie Flagg
#47. That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out.
Leah D. Daughtry
#48. When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.
Peter Lynch
#49. You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#50. I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.
Fannie Flagg
#51. Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.
Fannie Hurst
#52. One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.
Fannie Flagg
#53. I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
Fannie Flagg
#54. But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#55. Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg
#56. My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.
Anthony Bourdain
#57. Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#58. Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.
Fannie Flagg
#59. Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.
Fannie Flagg
#60. It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.
Fannie Flagg
#61. Sex, maybe, friendship, yes, but love, no. If she ever felt love coming toward her, she would cross the street to the other side.
Fannie Flagg
#62. He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.
Fannie Flagg
#63. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
Fannie Flagg
#64. Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?
Darryl Pinckney
#65. Come, come, come! Fast as you can! I'm fuckin' you hard, I'm the gingerbread man!" he cried in his high, jovial tone.
Fannie Tucker
#66. But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them.
Fannie Flagg
#67. Just think, Ruth, I never did it for anybody else before. Now nobody in the whole world knows I can do that but you. I just wanted us to have a secret together, that's all.
Fannie Flagg
#68. Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood.
Fannie Flagg
#69. Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage.
Fannie Heaslip Lea
#70. It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
Fannie Flagg
#71. I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#72. I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.
Fannie Flagg
#73. People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#74. So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year?
Fannie Flagg
#75. That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.
Fannie Flagg
#76. You know, it's funny what you'll miss when you're away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee ... and bacon frying in the morning.
Fannie Flagg
#77. Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.
Fannie Flagg
#78. Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
Fannie Flagg
#79. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
Fannie Farmer
#80. I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
Fannie Flagg
#81. Every woman wants to get married and have children.
Fannie Flagg
#82. Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?
Fannie Hurst
#83. Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.
Fannie Hurst
#84. And now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!
Fannie Flagg
#85. Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.
Fannie Flagg
#86. Her good weight was 150 pounds, and 178 pounds was her top. Consequently, Brenda had three different sets of clothes hanging in her closet, labeled GOOD, MEDIUM and FAT AS A HOG.
Fannie Flagg
#87. No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
Fannie Flagg
#88. Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken ... just what I like!" and she held it out for her friend to see.
Fannie Flagg
#89. If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#90. She had no interest in love. Love had taken her in the back room and beaten her up pretty badly.
Fannie Flagg
#91. It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst
#92. We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.
David Boaz
#93. White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake ... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#94. In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
Fannie Flagg
#95. You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
Fannie Flagg
#96. Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.
Fannie Hurst
#97. The little girl knew if she bit any member of her family, they would get rabies too, and she died without ever having been petted. I cried so hard Mrs. Underwood had to take me to the school nurse.
Fannie Flagg
#98. You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.
Fannie Flagg
#99. Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.
Fannie Flagg
