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Betty Smith Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“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, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Same Personality, Understanding Another Person, Different Character
“I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tagged: Being Needed, Love, Thoughts
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics)
Tagged: Perspective, Inspirational, Life, Happiness, travel
“ho wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.”
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tagged: strength, Trees, struggles
“Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was poetry for quiet companionship. There was adventure when she tired of quiet hours. There would be love stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived.”
— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tagged: Books, Reading, Poetry, Adventure
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