Strawberry Girl Quotes
"No one was more astonished than I to receive it."
"I was an innovator and a pioneer in a new direction."
"An entire book could be written about my experiences in other regions."
"There is no other thrill so great for an author-illustrator as seeing the first copy of a book."
"Like their antecedents in the Carolina mountains, the Florida Crackers have preserved a flavorsome speech."
"We need to know our country better; to know and understand people different from ourselves."
"I write my text in longhand first, and often revise it in longhand, then revise again as I type it."
"Their life was replete with drama, and being people of character and dignity, they lived it, and still live it, with vigor."
"Is not this a rich heritage for our American children?"
"The only way we-uns can git us a livin' is messin' with cows and sellin' 'em for beef."
"We don't never want them Slaters in our school."
"There was no school on the morrow, nor for many days and weeks thereafter, because the Slater boys had whipped the teacher."
"Had Pa killed the hog? Was there one hog less in Florida?"
"It was a good time to visit friends and to make new ones."
"I’m a peaceable man, said Boyer, but sometimes I lose my temper."
"Birdie was able to forgive him for the snake on her hat."
"Her anger was black enough to kill him, but he ran so fast she could not catch him."
"Only cowards write notes and don’t sign their names."
"You gotta goose-pick ’em, said Pa, like geese eating grass—pull out every little ole grass blade you see."
"Suddenly she saw a great swarm of grasshoppers."
"He might find some teeth to tend to, after the service was over."
"She took refuge behind the big umbrella tree."
"You put me down, Gus Slater!" she cried indignantly.
"Sugar, I’m studyin’ what’s best to do," said Pa.
"What’s mine’s my own! I’ll fence it in and keep other folks and their stock out!"
"I purely hate having the critters prancin' round loose. Can't have me no flower beds nor nothin'."
"You belong to be scrubbed clean, fed and watered and looked after."
"We got to brand 'em right away," Pa said, "before anybody gets their hands on 'em."
"I ain't seen hide nor hair of that calf," he said grimly. "It ain't been killed. Somebody's takened it. That's shore."
"Pa laughed. 'Want to go to town with me today?' he asked. 'We mustn't forget our strawberries. And there's two to three barrels of oranges Buzz picked. Got to ship 'em to them Yankees up north.'"
"'Fighting never settles anything,' said Miss Liddy."
"'We are getting ahead,' said Pa. 'We done well with our oranges, and if we fertilize 'em good, we'll do better next year. We made more on our strawberries than any person I met in town.'"
"'Now you won't mess up with no school, Jefferson Davis Slater!' she said in a good loud voice. 'Nor learn to read nor write, will you?'"
"'Excepting to take the liquor away. Where do he get it?' 'The Lord only knows,' said Mrs. Slater."
"'We all belong to get more,' said Mrs. Boyer, 'to learn how to love our neighbor.'"
"We thank thee, Lord, for all thy blessings … quench not the spirit in us, keep it gushing up like an artesian well … O Lord, give us such power that the old temptations look silly … no more shall we indulge in intoxicating liquor, backbiting, gossip or excessive anger. … Teach us to love our neighbor as ourselves. …"
"I'm hungry as an ole 'gator opening his big jaws to swaller a hog whole!"
"You're too big to git whopped," said Birdie, "and besides, your Ma's sick in bed."
"I'm shore obliged, ma'am!" The boy found his tongue at last. "I'm shore obliged for all you done done for Ma and the young uns. I'm plumb sorry for all the trouble us Slaters has made for you-all. …"
"Glory hallelujah!" cried Sam Slater. "I'm a changed man! A happy man for the first time in my life!"
"My heart was hard as a rock. Now 'tis soft as mud. I'll never be the same again, thank God."
"Praise God!" cried the women. "Glory be to God!" added the men.
"I can't say I'll be sorry to see the last of that herd of cows of your'n!" said Boyer.
"I'm fixin' to go to school once the new schoolhouse is built."
"My name's Jefferson Davis Slater," said the boy. "I come to git book-larnin'."
"I'm proud to welcome a peaceable Slater to my school."