Life Is Like a Box of Chocolates
Forrest Gump shares his mother's wisdom with strangers at a bus stop.
“My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”
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- From
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Type
- Movie
- Who
- Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
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The scene
Waiting at a bus stop in Savannah, Forrest offers a chocolate to the woman beside him and tells her his mother’s saying. It frames the whole story he then tells.
The quote is used for unpredictability, and often misquoted as “life is like a box of chocolates”.
