Ernest Gaines People Quotations

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have