Blue Quotes

“But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945),
I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers.
I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard.
I will say it was the time in my life when I learned all of us is fragile as a mimosa blossom.
But the miracle of all is,
When push comes to shove, we can be just as tough as Hickory.
It mostly hurts at first. After a while it starts to feel better.”
― Joyce Moyer Hostetter, Blue

“The last day of April, Hitler killed himself—which was a sure sign the war wasn’t going his way.”
― Joyce Moyer Hostetter, Blue

“Some people can’t even breathe when they get polio,” said Junior. “They have to lay in an iron lung with nothing but their head sticking out. It’s like a big barrel that does the breathing for them.”
― Joyce Moyer Hostetter, Blue