"A Year Down Yonder" Quotes

You can't keep trouble from visiting, but you don't have to offer it a chair.

Children are for dancing and laughing and mooning over.

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'the artist' and the all-sufficiency of 'art' and 'beauty' and 'love,' back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country to the cottage in Bermuda away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time--back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

The trouble with the future is, it's always a day away.

If you're already in the soup, you might as well make a splash.

Your father's been dead a long time, your mother's gone, and you've got the cat in the bag.

You've got to be able to stand on your own two feet.

You're never too old to learn something new.

I tell you, once you get the hang of it, there's nothing like making a pie.

There's no sense in being old if you don't have the memories to go with it.