Bette Lee Crosby Quotes

Nothing in this life is guaranteed. Nothing. The things you love are like the puffs of a dandelion weed; they grow wild and happen as they will.

Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.

She'd bottled herself up like a person already cremated.

A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.

Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.

Unfortunately time is the master of us all; it takes what it will, and often there are no words to ease the emptiness of what is gone.

The sad thing is, regardless of what children do or say, they're still your children, and you don't stop loving them. Yes, there may be occasions when you scream and yell until you're blue in the face, but even then, you don't stop loving them.

Do you think there's ever any joy for people who carve their happiness out of someone else's hurt?

When the preacher says it's for better or worse, you're so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.

She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live.

Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.

All those children I thought were just passing through have taken up residence in my heart. I can close my eyes and picture their faces, which is enough to make me feel warm all over.

To give a lot when you have a lot is easy; but to give a lot when you have so little is indeed a gift of love.

sugar, if you ain't on speaking terms with The Lord, what right you got to ask Him to help you out?

The heart can't learn to heal until it knows it's been broken.

What the heart remembers isn't always a true picture of what was,

Each day is a gift. Treasure it and remember it for what it is. There may come a time when that memory is all you have.

He searched his mind for something more to say, something to take away her pain, but he could find nothing. There were no words to ease such a pain. He knew because the ache in his heart was as great as hers.

No matter how old a person gets, they can still dream. They can still believe in miracles.

It ain't the preaching what makes a man godly, it's the doing.

love isn't the flourishes and fancy ironwork that decorate a facade, it's the foundation of a building. It's what forever is built on.

Having a sister is like having a thumb; you simply believe it will always be there, because how could you possibly get along without it?

It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!

Before you find the magic of life you have to open yourself up to the possibility of it being there.

We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that.

Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.

As I grow ever closer to the end of my time, I look back at this life and tell you that the only thing I would wish to give up is the regret I've carried in my heart for all these years. At long last I have come to realize the things I once counted as regrets were indeed blessings that I was too blind to see.