Forrest Gump is a famous novel written by Winston Groom in 1986.
The story follows the title character, Forrest Gump, through different experiences and historical events in America, such as the Vietnam War and college football.
I have listed some of the top quotes from Forrest Gump novel by Winston Groom.
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Forrest Gump Quotes by Winston Groom
“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“The Cracked Eggs, he says, have broken up.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“That’s all I have to say about that.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Run Forrest, run!” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“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 (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“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 (quote from Forrest Gump).
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Quotes from Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
“I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It’s my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now – medals where my soul used to be.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“I found the head nurse and asked her, and she said Dan has been flown back to America on account of they can take better care of him there. I asked her if he is okay, and she said, ‘Yeah, if you can call two punctured lungs, a severed intestine, spinal separation, a missing foot, a truncated leg, and third degree burns over half the body okay, then he is just fine. I thanked her, and went on my way.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up – come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everybody cussing and sweating and scared, woods set on fire, damn near put the rain out!” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“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 (quote from Forrest Gump).
“I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain’t sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it’s just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
Famous Forrest Gump Quotes by Winston Groom
“I got to tell you, that if it weren’t for that harmonica music, i might of just packed up and gone home, but it made me feel so good, I can hardly describe it. Sort of like my whole body is the harmonica and the music give me goosebumps when I play it.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“The one thing I remember from Fort Benning is that they didn’t seem to be nobody much smarter than I was, which was certainly a relief.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“The fact that I were too dumb to play college football did not seem to impress the United States Army none.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“All my own life, I ain’t understood shit about what was goin on. A thing jus happen, then somethin else happen, then somethin else, an so on, an haf the time nothin makin any sense.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of figured that if we was willing to do that to ourselves, then what the hell would we of done to them?
They taking the wounded out of there, when along come Sergeant Kranz, hair all singed off, clothes burnt up, looking like he just got shot out of a cannon.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
Top Forrest Gump Quotes by Winston Groom
“I think that sitting there talking to Dan was a thing that had a great impression on my life. I know that being an idiot and all, I ain’t supposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it’s just because nobody never too the time to talk to me about it. It was Dan’s philosophy that everything that happen to us, or for that matter, to anything everywhere, is controlled by natural laws that govern the universe. His views were extremely complicated, but the gist of what he said begun to change my whole outlook on things.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Let me say this: being an idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they say folks supposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you this – it ain’t always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interesting life, so to speak.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“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 (quote from Forrest Gump).
“It commenced raining one day and did not stop for two months. We went through ever different kind of rain they is, cep’n maybe sleet or hail. It was little tiny stinging rain sometimes, an big ole fat rain at others. It came sidewise an straight down an sometimes even seem to stand up from the ground. Nevertheless, we was expected to do our shit, which was mainly walking upland down the hills an stuff looking for gooks.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Sure, Gump,” he say. “What the hell—we will even get him accommodations in first class.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
Powerful Forrest Gump Quotes by Winston Groom
“Bullets an stuff be flying all over. It is something I simply cannot understand – why in hell is we doing all this, anyway? Playing football is one thing. But this, I do not know why. Goddamn.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“There was some people hurt far worst than I was in that hospital, let me tell you. Poor old boys with arms and legs and hands and who knows what else missing. Boys what had been shot in their stomach and chests and faces. At night the place sound like a torture chamber – them fellers be howling and crying and calling for their mamas.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“Maybe I am a idiot, but at least I ain’t stupid.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
“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 (quote from Forrest Gump).
“I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but somethin 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 (quote from Forrest Gump).
“So the next day I asked Dan how is it that Bubba can get killed, and what kind of half assed nature law would allow that. He thought about it for a while, and said, ‘Well, I’ll tell you, Forrest, all of these laws are not specially pleasing to us. But there is laws nonetheless. Like when a tiger pounce on a monkey in the jungle – bad for the money, but good for the tiger. That is just the way it is.” ~ Winston Groom (quote from Forrest Gump).
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