"My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get’” is a famous line from the movie Forrest Gump (1994). “My boyfriend is like a box of chocolates , I don’t have a box of chocolates” was posted on Twitter by “Atu already knows” on December 4, 2011. “Life is like a box of chocolates… i don’t have a box of chocolates”—another way of saying, “I don’t have a life”—was posted on Twitter by Shelb on January 4, 2012.
“Life is like a box of chocolates in that I don’t have a box of chocolates” has been printed on an ecard.
Wikiquote: Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 film about a mentally challenged man’s epic journey through life, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture, and experiencing first-hand historical incidents while largely unaware of their significance.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis. Written by Eric Roth, based on the novel by Winston Groom.
My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
. Note: ranked #40 in the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Twitter
Atu already knows
@AtuKnows
My boyfriend is like a box of chocolates , I don’t have a box of chocolates
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5:59 PM - 4 Dec 2011
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Shelb
@shelblh
life is like a box of chocolates… i don’t have a box of chocolates.
9:24 PM - 4 Jan 2012
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ScaryAssGoku
@FlowerThirsty
Life is like a box of chocolates. I don’t have a box of chocolates
4:08 PM - 8 Jan 2012
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Tyler Champagne
@tychamp
Life is like a box of chocolates, I don’t have a box of chocolates
10:36 PM - 23 Feb 2012
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Zongino
@Zongino
Life is like a box of chocolates. I don’t have a box of chocolates.
8:40 AM - 29 Apr 2013
Twitter
Barry Harper
@barryjohnharper
Life is like a box of chocolates.
I don’t have a box of chocolates.
7:03 PM - 27 Nov 2016
Reddit—Jokes
Life is like a box of chocolates,
submitted February 14, 2018 by SketchyPixel
I don’t have a box of chocolates.
Reddit—Jokes
My life is like a box of chocolates
submitted August 4, 2018 by R4ND0M_U53RN4M3
I don’t have a box of chocolates
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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