K. Martin Beckner Quotes

I can tell you kids grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. When I was your age, we took a bath once a week on Saturday night, and all of us used the same bath water.

You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.

Ain't no decent woman ever had that many husbands to die from natural causes.

Life's journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make, doorways to walk through. It can be confusing at times, like walking through a carnival maze. Some decisions we make are big, some small, but they all have consequences..

I've tucked those negative thoughts in a drawer, and for the most part, though I know the drawer still exists, it never gets opened.

Miss Green can call a turd a rose if she wants, but that don't mean people's going to be lining up to smell it.

I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.

In those days, at least in my small town, parents didn't seem to worry so much about what their kids were doing as long as they made it home in time for dinner.

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.

I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like King Tut.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

Anyway," continued Mr. Miller, "when I was a kid, people used to sit under the stars at night and look up into the sky and talk about things. They got to know each other. People Today is too busy staring at the television, what I call the idiot box, to talk about anything. That's why there are so many divorces these days. People don't talk

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes; we just have to figure out how to take our mistakes and make something good out of them.

I want you to learn that if you don't keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure, sometimes they will leave a nasty, jagged scar, but at least it won't hurt like it did anymore, and if you don't look at it, sometimes you can almost forget it's there.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.

I feel better now that we decided not to worry. I think most people spend too much time worrying about stuff that never happens.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

When I get too old to go out and do things, I'll close my eyes and be young again, in my mind at least. We never really have to be old, I think, as long as we stay young inside, as long as we can still pretend." "Wow,

I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.

And if you ever find someone you really love, hold onto them with everything you got. Hold onto them until they're gone. And if they ever are gone, let them go. Don't forget them, but let them go.