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Fannie Flagg Quotes

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Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel”, p.335, Random House

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.1145, Random House

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.128, Random House

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.290, Random House

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.458, Random House

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.54, Random House

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.250, Random House

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.18, Random House

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.456, Random House

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.160, Random House

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

Fannie Flagg (2006). “Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.257, Random House