Top 32 Quotes About Francie
#1. You must learn to take a joke, Francie, otherwise life will be pretty hard on you.
Betty Smith
#2. Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.
Betty Smith
#3. Maybe," thought Francie, "she doesn't love me as much as she loves Neeley. But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved.
Betty Smith
#4. Laurie's going to have a mighty easy life all right.
Annie Laurie McShane! She'll never have the hard times we had, will she?
No. And she'll never have the fun we had, either.
"Gosh! We did have fun, didn't we, Neeley?"
Yeah!
Poor Laurie, said Francie pityingly.
Betty Smith
#5. In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.
Betty Smith
#6. Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.
Betty Smith
#7. He couldn't help himself. He loved us, Francie, more than anything,
Judy Blume
#8. Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
Betty Smith
#9. And Francie whispered yeah in agreement. She was proud of that smell. It let her know that nearby was a waterway, which, dirty though it was, joined a river that flowed out to the sea. To her, the stupendous stench suggested far-sailing ships and adventure and she was pleased with the smell.
Betty Smith
#10. My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.
Peter Capaldi
#11. Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.
Betty Smith
#12. Do you hear that, Francie? You're in college! 'oh gosh, I feel sick.
Betty Smith
#13. Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.
Betty Smith
#14. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
#15. Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that would be Socialism," concluded Johnny triumphantly, "and we don't want that over here." "Why?" "Because we got democracy and that's the best thing there is," clinched Johnny.
Betty Smith
#16. Neeley came home and he and Francie were sent out for the weekend meat. This was an important ritual and called for detail instructions by mama.
Betty Smith
#17. Francie, Neeley, and mama had a very fine meal. Each had a thick slice of the "tongue," two pieces of sweet-smelling rye bread spread with unsalted butter, a sugar bun apiece and a mug of strong hot coffee with a teaspoon of sweetened condensed milk on the side.
Betty Smith
#18. Francie of course became an outsider shunned by all because of her stench. But she had grown accostumed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and being considered different. She did not suffer to much.
Betty Smith
#19. Francie loved the smell of coffee and the way it was hot. As she ate her bread and meat, she kept one hand curved about the cup enjoying its warmth. From time to time, she'd smell the bitter sweetness of it. That was better than drinking it. At the end of the meal, it went downt the sink.
Betty Smith
#20. I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
Bradley Cooper
#21. Then I've been drunk, too," admitted Francie.
"On beer?"
"No. Last spring, in McCarren's Park, I saw a tulip for the first time in my life.
Betty Smith
#22. I need someone," thought Francie desperately. "I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understading must be part of the holding.
Betty Smith
#23. You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
Betty Smith
#24. Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.
Francie Larrieu Smith
#25. Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
John Calvin
#26. But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.
Betty Smith
#27. I tell runners ... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover.
Francie Larrieu Smith
#28. Anyone looking at you would write you off as a brainless nincompoop with about as much intelligence as a dead rabbit.
P.G. Wodehouse
#30. There was what people called "present bias" - the tendency, when making a decision, to undervalue the future in relation to the present. There was "hindsight bias" - which he thought of as the tendency for people to look at some outcome and assume it was predictable all along. The
Michael Lewis
#31. Russell answered, Well, no - well, it certainly has permitted me to have more hours to work ... but I would not recommend it to anyone. If I had my life to do over again, I would certainly get married.
Robert A. Caro
#32. The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
Francie Larrieu Smith
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