Winston Groom Quotes

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way.

And that's all I've got to say about that.

I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

Stupid is as stupid looks.

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!

Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.

Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.

I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.