Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet.
("The Glass Castle")
More Quotes from Jeannette Walls:
Everything in life is gray, you know.Jeannette Walls
Life there was hard and it made people hard.
Jeannette Walls
Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
Jeannette Walls
Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
Jeannette Walls
Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life.
Jeannette Walls
My life is not just about the past.
Jeannette Walls
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: People Quotes, Running QuotesA man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
Don Henley
Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
Wayne Coyne
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
Hector Hugh Munro