Michael Lee West Quotes

You not trapped girl. Not unless you nailed to the floor.

He just knew we would find luck, but believing something don't make it true.

Everybody's always doing the same old things
you know, doing unto others before they can do unto you.

Gardens come and go, but I find myself getting attached to certain perennials. My tulips are bridesmaids, with fat faces and good posture. Hollyhocks are long necked sisters. Daffodils are young girls running out of a white church, sun shining on their heads. Peonies are pink-haired ladies, so full and stooped you have to tie them up with string. And roses are nothing but (I hate to say it) bitches
pretty show-offs who'll draw blood if you don't handle them just right.
-Vangie Galliard Nepper, From her
"Garden Diary," March 1952

There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.

Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

I wondered if small town people became smaller in order to fit. Perhaps they had to.

There is nothing harder than being your own rock.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

As my daddy said, soil is the basis of everything.

She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.