Winston Groom Quotes

Life is like a box of chocolates.

— Winston Groom

I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.

— Winston Groom

“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.”

— Winston Groom

Stupid is as stupid looks.

— Winston Groom

“That's all I have to say about that.”

— Winston Groom

“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!”

— Winston Groom

“But let me tell you this: sometimes at night, when I look up at the stars, an see the whole sky jus laid out there, don't you think I ain't rememberin it all. I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been. An then, all of a sudden, I'm forty, fifty, sixty years ole, you know?
Well, so what? I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing
an dreams is jus dreams, ain't they? 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.
You know what I mean?”

— Winston Groom

“I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain't they? 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.”

— Winston Groom

“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.”

— Winston Groom

“Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.”

— Winston Groom

“For the first time in nearly twenty-five years, our country is having anything to do with the Chinamen, an it is an event far more important than any damn ping-pong game. It is diplomacy, and the future of the human race might be at stake. Do you understand what I am saying?
I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but something down in me sinkin' fast. I am jus' a po' ole idiot, an now I have got the whole human race to look after.”

— Winston Groom

“Jenny and I were like peas and carrots.”

— Winston Groom

“If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.”

— Winston Groom

“Sure, Gump," he say. "What the hell-we will even get him accommodations in first class.”

— Winston Groom

“Knew Americans as friends and would probably help them. If the Americans”

— Winston Groom

“I still got dreams like anybody else, an ever so often, I am thinkin about how things might of been.”

— Winston Groom

“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.”

— Winston Groom

“There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way.”

— Winston Groom

I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.

— Winston Groom

Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far, far away.

— Winston Groom

“The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.”

— Winston Groom