Betty Smith Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.

  Betty Smith

  Believe, Giving, Don't Believe

• It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.

  Betty Smith

  Children, Grief, Winter

• Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.

  Betty Smith

  Giving, Headache, Wells

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

• I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.

  Betty Smith

  Giving, Charity, Want

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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