Sergeant York (1941)
Margaret Wycherly: Mother York
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Quotes
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Sergeant : I'm a-knowing where there's a piece of bottom land to be had, and I'm a-going to get it.
Mother York : [impressed by his determination] Maybe you will...
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Rosie York : Ma, what're they fighin' for over there?
Mother York : Don't rightly know, Child. Don't rightly know.
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[Alvin puts a handful of dirt onto a plate at the table and pushes it toward his mother]
Mother York : That there's bottom land soil, ain't it? Queer how the folks on the bottom looks down on the folks on the top. It was always that way. No changin' it!
Alvin : I'm gonna *get* us a piece of bottom land!
Mother York : Your pa set out to get a piece of bottom land once. Nary a man ever tried any harder! Liked to *kill* hisself tryin'!
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Pastor Rosier Pile : Howdy Mother York?
Mother York : Tol'able Pastor.
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Mother York : Lord, Lord - if You can, help him to be a-gittin' his bottom land!
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Pastor Rosier Pile : Don't be takin' it hard Mother York, what you just heerd.
Mother York : I ain't a-takin' nothin' hard Pastor. An' I ain't makin' excuses for Alvin, or nobody.
Pastor Rosier Pile : 'Course you ain't. I ain't askin' you to.
Mother York : I'm right proud of Alvin.
Pastor Rosier Pile : You gotta right to be.
Mother York : Works hard, Alvin does. Patchin' and a-scratchin' that poor land. It's mighty hard work gettin' corn outta rocks. Who's to blame him, if he busts loose now an' again.
Pastor Rosier Pile : Nobody Mother York - nary a soul.
Mother York : 'Course, I ain't fer Alvin doin' like he does. A little religion wouldn't do him no hurt.
Pastor Rosier Pile : No. 'Twouldn't.
Mother York : Pastor, I wouldn't be agin you talkin' to Alvin. Do you think it would do any good?
Pastor Rosier Pile : Well - wouldn't do no harm. I'll be ridin' up an' havin' a talk with him.
Mother York : I'm a-thankin' you Pastor.
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Mother York : [saying Grace] The Lord bless these vittals we done got, and help us to be beholden to nobody.
