Betty Smith Quotes about Growing Up

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She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, You have a bad case, a very bad case. Of what? Growing up.

She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

Betty Smith

Growing Up, Papa, Tongue

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

There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly . . . survives without sun, water, and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.

Betty Smith

Beautiful, Growing Up, Struggle

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn epigraph (1943)

Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman even though her name was Nolan. They were all slender, frail creatures with wondering eyes and soft fluttery voices. But they were made out of thin invisible steel.

Betty Smith

Daughter, Mother, Growing Up

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

Betty Smith Quotes about Growing Up

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