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Winston Groom Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Past, Future, mama, Moving On
“My mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where they going, where they been.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Shoes, Experience
“Marshall kept a 'little black book' of officers who impressed him 'for future reference.'”
— Winston Groom, The Generals: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the Winning of World War II
Tagged: strategy
“Sometimes, I guess there just aren't enough rocks.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Rocks, Revenge
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Stupid, Unwise
“You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Christmas, Selective Memory
“Some people don't think miracles happen; well, they do.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Miracles, Optimism
“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.”
— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
Tagged: first lines of books
“When I was a baby Momma named me after the great civil war hero general Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we were related to him in some way what he did was: He started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan they'd all dress up in their robes and their bed sheets and act like a bunch of ghosts and spooks or something. They'd even put bed sheets on their horses and ride around and anyway that's how I got my name Forrest Gump.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Nathan Bedford Forrest, Ku Klux Klan, KKK
“Yes. Well, I-I don't know. Sometimes it would stop raining long enough for the stars to come out... and then it was nice. It was like just before the sun goes to bed down on the bayou. There was always a million sparkles on the water... like that mountain lake. It was so clear, Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It's so beautiful.”
— Forrest Gump,
Tagged: Bsyou, Rain, romance
“I hadn't seen anything so beautiful in my life she was like an angel. I just sat next to her on that bus and had a conversation all the way to school. Next to momma no one ever talked to me or asked me questions from that day on we were always together Jenny, she helped me learn how to read and I showed her how to swing sometimes we'd just sit out and wait for the stars for some reason Jenny never wanted to go home she was my most special friend, my only friend”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Friendship, angel, Beautiful, Stars
“You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Eulogy, Heartache
“Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off. So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Foursquare Gospel Church and I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre Fishing Hospital. And even though Bubba was dead, and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, I gave Bubba's momma Bubba's share. And you know what? She didn't have to work in nobody's kitchen no more...”
— Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump
Tagged: Momma, gospel, Fortune, Ostentatiouis
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