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Top 20 Bette Greene Quotes (2025 Update)

Bette Greene Quote: “And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you’re more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.”

1. “And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you’re more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.”

2. “I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”

3. “Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “Longevity can’t be the only test of love.”

4. “Longevity can’t be the only test of love.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain’t no greater love in this here world than that.”

5. “Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain’t no greater love in this here world than that.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “When people’s emotions are involved they don’t want to listen.”

6. “When people’s emotions are involved they don’t want to listen.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.”

7. “Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.”

8. “I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.”

9. “Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “Fun, like champagne bubbles, can’t completely fill you up.”

10. “Fun, like champagne bubbles, can’t completely fill you up.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.”

11. “I love Arkansas but I think Arkansas has its share of unlit minds.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else’s business?”

12. “I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else’s business?”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “A person’s got to think, otherwise that person’s no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he’d know he was making a thousand children laugh.”

13. “A person’s got to think, otherwise that person’s no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he’d know he was making a thousand children laugh.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I’d measure my progress in inches. One more inch I’ve swum – one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody’s river can bring you down.”

14. “The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I’d measure my progress in inches. One more inch I’ve swum – one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody’s river can bring you down.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.”

15. “It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces – spaces you know can’t ever be filled.”

16. “And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces – spaces you know can’t ever be filled.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “The world is not a rational place.”

17. “The world is not a rational place.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you’re in pain?”

18. “What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you’re in pain?”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “What is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?”

19. “What is genius, anyway, if it isn’t the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.”

20. “My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of... death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it’s only a bit of space carved out of air.”

21. “Six years is plenty long enough to soothe the tearing anguish of... death, but maybe no amount of time is enough to soothe something that is no longer there. Something like an emptiness that can never be filled because it’s only a bit of space carved out of air.”

— Bette Greene

Bette Greene Quote: “It’s not really rewarding trying to fathom what people will think. Particularly people who have demonstrated a lifetime aversion to thinking.”

22. “It’s not really rewarding trying to fathom what people will think. Particularly people who have demonstrated a lifetime aversion to thinking.”

— Bette Greene

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