Peter Graves
(as Ben Harper)
Ben Harper:
I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food, children roamin' the highways in this here Depression, children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies in junk heaps. And I promised myself that I'd never see the day when my young-uns had want.
Evelyn Varden
(as Icey Spoon)
Icey Spoon:
[about sex in marriage] A woman's a fool to marry for that. That's somethin' for a man. The Good Lord never meant for a decent woman to want that. Not really want it. It's all just a fake and a pipe dream.
Evelyn Varden
(as Icey Spoon)
Icey Spoon:
[about the conjugal bed] When you've been married to a man for forty years you know all that don't amount to a hill of beans. I've been married to Walt that long and I swear in all that time I just lie there thinkin' about my canning.
Evelyn Varden
(as Icey Spoon)
Icey Spoon:
A husband's one piece of store goods you never know 'til you get it home and take the paper off.
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
Rachel Cooper:
[to Ruby, sobbing in her lap] Child... You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how.
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
Rachel Cooper:
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
Rachel Cooper:
I'm a strong tree with branches for many birds. I'm good for something in this world and I know it too.
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
Lillian Gish
(as Rachel Cooper)
Rachel Cooper:
John - ain't you going to say hello to your pa?
John Harper: He's not my pa!
Rachel Cooper: No, and he ain't no preacher neither!
John Harper: He's not my pa!
Rachel Cooper: No, and he ain't no preacher neither!
