Robert Lawson Quotes

“D'you know, Georgie," he said, settling back comfortably in the deep grass, that there song you've been a-singin' at all day - it ain't much of a song and it ain't much of a tune, but there's real good *sense* to it, though you probably don't know it. And I'll tell you why - because there always *is* new Folks comin', that's why. There's always new Folks comin' and always new times comin'.”

“Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people - we go on.''We take a beatin' all the time.''I know.' Ma chuckled. 'Maybe that makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But, Tom, we keep a-comin'. Don' you fret none, Tom. A different time's comin'.”

“The glory of the New Covenant Temple is the glory of Christ Himself – a spiritual glory that is only obscured by outward, external, typical, ceremonial, and fleshly elements.”

“Will you take me as I am? Strung out on another man...California, I'm comin' home.”

“If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.”

“I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.”

“Wait," she whispered breathlessly. "I want us to come together." "What's wrong with you comin' twice, luv?”

“I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.”

“The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)”

“Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?”