A Quote by Pat Conroy

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

Pat Conroy

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Pat Conroy
American - Writer
October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

Pat Conroy

Like is an emotion. Emotions”—he raised a hand, made a fist, clenched it tightly—“are like holding water. You open your hand, there’s nothing there. Better to be a weapon than a woman.

Karen Marie Moning

When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson.

Roger Delano Hinkins

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

I always held my flower in a clenched fist.

Eric Hoffer

A lot of people get upset by any protest - people taking a knee during the national anthem or raising a fist. As if we're being disrespectful. Or rude to the national anthem or to our soldiers, you know what I'm saying? It's deeper than that.

DeSean Jackson

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

Joseph Parker

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Herbert Newton Casson

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Alistair Begg

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

Octavia Spencer

Many of us come into the world with a clenched fist, but we all leave with an open hand.

Sixto Rodriguez

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Victor Hugo

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

Gayle Forman

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Duer Miller

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

Robert Jordan

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