Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

And there's something else I want you always to remember. There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don't ever want you to forget that. You hear me?"

She went over to see her friend who owned the tombstone place and had him make up a baby tombstone that had carved on it:

HERE LIES BUDDY JR’S ARM

He fell off one of the trains and had his arm cut off, right above the elbow. His real name was Buddy Threadgoode, Jr., but they called him Stump 'cause all he had left was a little stump of an arm.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you

That's what makes life worth living,

She didn't know the meaning of the word shame, and was indeed a friend to man.

She was not the sort of girl that most men would take home to Momma,

It's funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened;

'd be the only corpse with a smile on my face."

I'd rather kill for love than kill for hate.

Ruth, I'd kill for you. Anybody that would ever hurt you, I'd kill them in a minute and never think twice about it."