Betty Smith Professions : Author Born : December 15, 1896 Died : January 17, 1972 Browse All Authors Top 100 quotes by Betty Smith As long as one can suffer, one is living....live and suffer until life is gone. Betty Smith suffering gone long 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. Betty Smith struggle sky fall I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right. Betty Smith feel-good people way It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that. Betty Smith brooklyn girl names How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth. Betty Smith salary usual thinking Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right. Betty Smith quarrels two people It takes a lot of doing to die. Betty Smith dies She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again. Eyes changed after they looked at new things. If in the years to be she were to come back, her new eyes might make everything seem different from the way she saw it now. The way it was now was the way she wanted to remember it. Betty Smith eye long years Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet. "Beautiful legs, then, is the secret of being a mistriss," concluded Francie. She looked down at her own long thin legs. "I'll never make it, I guess." Sighing , she resigned herself to a sinless life. Betty Smith feet beautiful long Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter. Betty Smith rich persons suffering Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. Betty Smith imagination believe children She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things. Betty Smith tiny eye school No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people. Betty Smith sky tree people She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it Betty Smith oil pain alive This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this. Betty Smith eight sleep people There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. Betty Smith dark sun water New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world. Betty Smith cities new-york world And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. Betty Smith too-much trouble self The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things. Betty Smith rich differences hands I'll not punish you for having an imagination. Betty Smith imagination Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
