Told Quotes

If you had told me I’d be making 62 tomorrow, I’d say you were lying.

Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

I’m happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I’ve never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I’m told to say.

My dad told me, ‘It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success’, and it took me seventeen and a half years.