Idgie Quotes

#1. You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute of your time looking in a mirror wishing you looked different.

Jamie Le Fay

#2. I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#3. 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

#4. These things will be hard to do, but you can do hard things.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#5. You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

Fannie Flagg

#6. American religion is conspicuous for its messianically pretentious energy, its embarassingly banal prose, and its impatiently hustling ambition.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#8. But at the time, a mark of how far down the rabbit hole I had fallen, I saw it as just another tragedy I needed to stuff in the growing box in the back of my head. Shut the top and move on.

Kim Barker

#9. I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison

Fannie Flagg

#10. We need to let God get down underneath what we think needs changing, so that He can bring full restoration and redemption to us where we truly need changing.

Matt Chandler

#11. Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was

Fannie Flagg