Tree Grows In Brooklyn Quotes

#1. I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story.

Suzanne Collins

#2. 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

Amandla Stenberg

#3. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

Suzanne Collins

#4. If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Annie Golden

#5. Anything you say may be used against you.

Betty Smith

#6. Take me to a land where love never ends.

Debasish Mridha

#7. She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

Betty Smith

#8. Everything is just so fraught with tendentious bullshit.

Vitomil Zupan

#9. The tears stood in her eyes.

Betty Smith

#10. Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#11. Smart phones are re-inventing the connections between companies and their customers.

Rich Miner

#12. I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

Nathalie Sarraute

#13. Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#14. The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Anais Nin

#15. We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Arianna Huffington

#16. Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.

Herbert Spencer

#17. But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.

Betty Smith

#18. He would teach himself to dislike what he actually liked, to approve of what he did not totally understand, in the hopes that he would come out the other side with something that resembled inspiration, something that would make him more famous than Chris Burden or even Hobart Waxman.

Kevin Wilson

#19. People looking up at her
at her smooth pretty vivacious face
had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

Betty Smith

#20. He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Aneurin Bevan