Magnolias Quotes

• Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.

  Maria Gowen Brooks

  Towers, Grove, Western

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• I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Growing Up, Real

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Drunk, Scent, Claws

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

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• I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special.

  Robert Harling

  Love, Friendship, Special

  Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Respect, Nature

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• smile, It increases your face value

  Robert Harling

  Inspirational, Smile, Keep Smiling

  Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.42, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

  Dolly Parton

  Laughter, Tears, Emotion

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• If YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY ABOUT ANYONE..COME SIT BY ME.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Nice, Social Graces, Ifs

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• All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that all originality and authorship is lost. That's why you're seeing superstars like Brad Pitt in THE FIGHT CLUB and Tom Cruise in MAGNOLIA. They're desperately searching for people writing and directing off-formula movies.

  Paul Schrader

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

  Robert Harling

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, I Can

  "Steel Magnolias". m.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I just sat there. I just held Shelby's hand. There was no noise, no tremble, just peace. Oh god. I realize as a woman how lucky I am. I was there when that wonderful creature drifted into my life and I was there when she drifted out. It was the most precious moment of my life.

  Robert Harling

  Hands, Lucky, Noise

  "Fictional character: M'Lynn". "Steel Magnolias", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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  That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

  Robert Harling

  Laughter, Tears, Emotion

  "Steel Magnolias". www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me.

  Dorothy Parker

  Nice, Social Graces, Ifs

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• He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Real, Gentleman, Insult

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• Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me!

  Olympia Dukakis

  Nice, Wells, Knows

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• I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Strong, Heart, Blue

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• There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

  Frank Zindler

  Nike, Past, Order

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• The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Growth, Wreaths

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

  Dolly Parton

  Cry, Strict, Policy

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2011

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• The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Animal, Choke, Pornography

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

  Dolly Parton

  Birthday, Faces, Aging

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• Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

  Robert Harling

  Long, Church, Care

  "Steel Magnolias". www.imdb.com. November 5, 1989.

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• I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Children, Growing Up

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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