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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 QUOTES

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 QUOTES

1 " My dinosaurs weren’t even in their graves for three hours before someone rolled their rocks away. Maybe it was a lot easier for a bunch of angels to get a million dinosaurs to heaven than it was to get the saver of the whole world there, but I wished they’d given me a couple more hours. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

2 " Every once in a while, Momma would make me go to Sunday school with Joey. Even though it was just a bunch of singing and coloring in coloring books and listening to Mrs. Davidson, I had learned one thing. I learned about getting saved. I learned how someone could come to you when you were feeling real, real bad and could take all of your problems away and make you feel better. I learned that the person who saved you, your personal saver, was sent by God to protect you and to help you out. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

3 " There's one good thing about getting in trouble: It seems like you do it in steps. It seems like you don't just end up in trouble but that you kind of ease yourself into it. It also seems like the worse the trouble is that you get into, the more steps it takes to get there. Sort of like you're getting a bunch of little warnings on the way; sort of like if you really wanted to you could turn around. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

4 " Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

5 " Byron says he won't go there. He give Kenny and Joey a story about "Wool Pooh," the supposed evil twin of Winnie-the-Pooh. They believe him, but Kenny still wants to go. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

6 " Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?! "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

7 " Now, your mother and I made a deal when we first got married that if either one of us ever watched the 'wunnerful, wunnerful' Lawrence Welk Show or listened to country music the other one got to get a free divorce. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

8 " But I was kind of surprised that God would send a saver to me in such raggedy clothes. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

9 " cereal and went out into the "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

10 " There was going to be a battle something like if Godzilla met King Kong, or if Frankenstein met Dracula, or like when champion wrestler Bobo Brazil meets the Sheik! "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

11 " Dad was in the United Auto Workers at work so seniority was real important in our house. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

12 " (Anika Noni Rose), "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

13 " It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times are hard. Ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy on the run, and his momma never told him who his father was. But she left a clue: posters of Herman "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

14 " It’s times like this when someone is talking to you like you are a grown-up that you have to be careful not to pick your nose or dig your drawers out of your butt. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

15 " nekkid "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

16 " Langston Hughes. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

17 " That was the only part I didn’t mind. I loved sticking my nose right on top of Joey’s head and smelling all those nice things baked together. "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

18 " should be shot "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

19 " another finger sign I’d never seen before "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

20 " Come on, Daddy, turn it on, stop teasing! "

― Christopher Paul Curtis , The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963