Idgie Threadgoode: I don't know what's worse, church or jail.
Ruth: Don't you ever say never to me.
Ninny Threadgoode: Hey Evelyn, somebody stole my house.
Ninny Threadgoode: [to Evelyn] You git yourself some hormones!
Harry Terwilliger: Piss on ME? [he sprays Wild Bill with a fire hose]
Melinda Moores: [as John Coffey approaches her bed] Pig fucker!
If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
Green wood gives more smoke than heat.
There were three, very large males standing above her, staring. She started from left to right. Big green-eyed male, big green-eyed male and, hey, lookie there, another big green-eyed male. Dear gods. Did I fall so hard that now I am seeing three of ...
Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.
I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.
...[I]t is pain to think of innocence in ruin.
Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.
You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.
One travels like a golf ball, hopping from green to green.
Ninny Threadgoode: I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends.
