Standing in the Rainbow Quotes

“Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn’t, isn’t.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“In America, no matter how poor you started out or where you came from, you could go as high as you wanted if you were willing to work for it.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn’t been for him we’d all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle,”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“I only like to recommend books that are happy and cheerful. ... I know there are sad things out in the world ... but I just don't want to dwell on them. I just stick my head in the sand. I don't want to face the facts. All the scientists are determined to tell us what the moon is made of and what the stars are ... and why there are rainbows ... but I just don't want to know. When i wish on a star, I don't need to know what it's made of--as for me, when a thing is beautiful what does it matter why? I never get tired of looking at the moon. One night it is small and round as a shiny, ice-cold, white marble and the next it's a big soft yellow moon. How can we be bored when nature gives us so many wonders to look at?”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“Now, I’m not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“You never saw people anymore, everything was self-service, everybody behind glass windows. And you could not get a real person on the phone. Everywhere you called, a recorded message connected you to another recorded message and then hung up on you.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“had been a pilot in the Second World War, said she would be happy to go to Vietnam right now if she could. To them war was war and a draft dodger was a traitor. There was racial unrest everywhere and uneasiness about the rise of crime, drugs, and gangs in the cities and how it was being handled. It seemed to numerous voters that, thanks to the growing power of the ACLU, criminals were beginning to have more rights than the victims.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“it’s not even people anymore, it’s one big thing you want to control and once you’ve had a taste of it, you’re hooked. It’s like if you don’t have it you will die, do you know what I mean? Somebody’s handed you the baton and you can lead this rich, powerful orchestra. Does that make sense to you? I mean after that, leading a five-piece band means nothing, not after you’ve led that orchestra, thousands of people all playing the song just like you want them to.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It’s like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“Someone’s Waiting for Me Up There” and ended the service with “There’ll Be Peace in the Valley.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“Because, honey," she said, "after you've been to the moon, where else is there to go?”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“You save up all your energy for the big push--when you need it. And when you're up there, concentrate. Remain calm and steady as she goes. Don't look right, don't look left, don't let yourself get rattled, just stay the course, nice and easy all the way.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“...Look at me...and tell me what you see.'
Norma put her pencil down and studied him. 'You look just like you always did, Macky, only older.'
'How much older?'
'You look... oh, I don't know, Macky, you look the same to me as you always did. I don't know what you look like. Go look for yourself in the mirror.'
'I want an objective view. I see myself every day.'
'Well, I see you every day too. How am I supposed to know what you look like?”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“as they walked home, and she would”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“months was ten years.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“It seemed to numerous voters that, thanks to the growing power of the ACLU, criminals were beginning to have more rights than the victims. Preachers across the country were becoming alarmed about the young people’s apathy and lack of morals. Some blamed television. Or as Reverend W. W. Nails put it, “The devil has three initials: ABC, NBC, and CBS. They love Lucy more than they do the Lord and they would rather leave it to Beaver than to Jesus.” The average middle-class Americans who worked hard every day, who were not criminals, not on welfare, and had seldom complained, suddenly and collectively started showing signs of growing disillusionment, worried that with all the new social programs they were now going to have to carry the rich and the poor on their backs. They were tired of having to pay so much income and other taxes to support half the world while they struggled to make ends meet. They began to feel that no matter how hard they worked or how much they paid, it was never appreciated and it was never enough.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“Those Russkies won’t put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“The guy is dangerous. He’s getting crazier by the minute. Right now he’s got every lunatic-fringe group and hate group coming out of the woodwork. If somebody doesn’t shut him up, he’s going to drag us right back into McCarthyism and the next thing we know we’re going to be dragged into a war with Russia.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“The average middle-class Americans who worked hard every day, who were not criminals, not on welfare, and had seldom complained, suddenly and collectively started showing signs of growing disillusionment, worried that with all the new social programs they were now going to have to carry the rich and the poor on their backs. They were tired of having to pay so much income and other taxes to support half the world while they struggled to make ends meet. They began to feel that no matter how hard they worked or how much they paid, it was never appreciated and it was never enough.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow