Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Winston Groom

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Winston Groom.
Last updated on November 28, 2024.
Winston Groom

Winston Francis Groom Jr. was an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He is best known for his novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a cultural phenomenon after being adapted as a 1994 film of the same name, starring Tom Hanks. After the film was released, gaining a high box office and winning numerous awards, Groom's novel sold more than one million copies worldwide. Groom wrote a sequel, Gump and Co., published in 1995. His last novel was El Paso (2011).

Mama read it an began pulling her hair an weepin an praisin the Lord, 'cause it say I am 'Temporarily Deferred' on account of I am a numbnuts.
I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.
There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way. — © Winston Groom
There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way.
Stupid is as stupid looks.
If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.
Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.
I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.
My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
And that's all I've got to say about that.
So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.
Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running!
The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. — © Winston Groom
Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.
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