Quotes About Family In The Bean Trees

#1. I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.

Buck Brannaman

#3. Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Andrew Greeley

#4. One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

Monica Raymund

#5. Isn't that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#6. When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

Kathy Baker

#7. Tread Lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.

Oscar Wilde