Quotes About Joel Chandler Harris

#1. Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#2. When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

Joel Chandler Harris

#3. My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

Khalil Gibran

#4. Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

Joel Chandler Harris

#5. Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

Joel Chandler Harris

#6. Morning not only forgives, it forgets.

Marty Rubin

#7. One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.

Elle Varner

#8. People treat you the way they feel about themselves, I reminded myself, trying to ignore the sting of his words.

Fran Seen

#9. Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

Joel Chandler Harris

#10. Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Joel Chandler Harris

#11. I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

Joel Chandler Harris

#12. Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

Joel Chandler Harris

#13. People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

Joel Chandler Harris

#14. It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Barney Oliver

#15. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

Nina Simone

#16. Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Remus stories. He got his start by transcribing the stories of slave Informants. I'm sure that none them got a dime.

Ishmael Reed

#17. Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Joel Chandler Harris

#18. I am in the prime of my senility.

Joel Chandler Harris

#19. TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.

Michiel Huisman

#20. Didn't you ever love anything that much?

Jojo Moyes

#21. If we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.

Betsy Landin