15+ Best Winston Groom Quotes

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My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.’

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Life mama Random Box of Chocolates

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My mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where they going, where they been.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Shoes Experience

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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

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Sometimes, I guess there just aren't enough rocks.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Rocks Revenge

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Stupid is as stupid does.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Stupid Unwise

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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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Christmas Selective Memory

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Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Dying Life Mortality Wishful Thinking

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One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain...and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Rain Downpour Rainy Season

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Some people don't think miracles happen; well, they do.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Miracles Optimism

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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 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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

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Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

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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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Nathan Bedford Forrest Ku Klux Klan KKK

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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 (Tom Hanks)

Bsyou Rain romance

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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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Friendship angel Beautiful Stars

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That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Running Alabama Persistence

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Mama always said, God is mysterious. He didn't turn Jenny into a bird that day. But instead - he had the po-lice say Jenny didn't have to stay in that house no more. She went to live with her grandma, just over on Creekmore Avenue. And that made me happy, because she was close. And some nights she'd sneak out and come on over to my house, because she said she was scared. It may have been because of her grandma's dog, or somethin'.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

mysterious mama Police

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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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Eulogy Heartache

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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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Momma gospel Fortune Ostentatiouis

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My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.’

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

My mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where they going, where they been.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

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

Sometimes, I guess there just aren't enough rocks.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Stupid is as stupid does.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

One day it started raining, and it didn't quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin' rain...and big ol' fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night...

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Some people don't think miracles happen; well, they do.

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

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 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 (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

— Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

— Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump

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