Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Michael Malone Story (1964)

Nellie Burt: Nora Holland

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Quotes 

• Nora Holland : Remember the old blessing, child: May the road rise up to meet you, and the wind always be at your back.

  Julie Holland : May the Good Lord hold you in the hollow of His hand.

• Nora Holland : You're elected...

  [to Michael] 

  Nora Holland : There's four things even a transgeneration Irishman is good for: Fighting, loving, drinking and dancing.

• Nora Holland : Michael, whatever you're running away from is running right along side of you.

  Michael Malone : Nora, I'd rather not talk about it.

  Nora Holland : I'm not a prying woman by nature but where there's a mystery and a sadness to a man it's intriguing. Young girls make a dream of it.

  Michael Malone : There's a difference between the dream and the reality.

  Nora Holland : Michael, be gentle when you break her heart.

  Michael Malone : You're making too much of it.

• Christopher Hale : Wonderful to have a good cup of coffee.

  [Behind his hands and mug, his eyes roll, eyebrows skyrocket and eyes pop] 

  Nora Holland : Is it all right?

  Christopher Hale : Why, yes. Fine, fine.

  Nora Holland : We call it Irish coffee. I thought you'd need it after your rounds, listening to troubling complaints, how people are getting safe.

• Julie Holland : You're a strange man, Michael, full of evasions and mysterious silences. But I'm building a picture of you already. You can speak Spanish, you can quote Shelley, your hands are not used to physical labour and you have a thirst for liquor. I'd say you're trying to forget something. A woman most likely. Was she very beautiful? Did you love her terribly?

  Nora Holland : Will you stop pestering the man with silly suppositions.

  Julie Holland : I diplomatically change the subject.

• Michael Malone : We had a choice of either five days in jail or...

  Cooper Smith : What does he mean: We?

  Charlie Wooster : I was an innocent bystander, that's all I was.

  Christopher Hale : This most interesting. Would you care to continue?

  Michael Malone : Well, there was the matter of the saloon window we broke.

  Charlie Wooster : Good drivers are hard to find, aint they Coop?

  Christopher Hale : Maybe you don't look in the right places.

  Charlie Wooster : I do.

  Christopher Hale : Have you driven a four up before, Mr Malone?

  Michael Malone : No, sir. Mr Wooster gave me an advance on my salary to pay for the fine and the window. The only way I can repay the debt is to work it out for the ladies.

  Christopher Hale : Mr Wooster is most generous.

  Charlie Wooster , Christopher Hale , Nora Holland : We'll get on fine, Mr Malone.

  Christopher Hale : Just one thing in case it makes a difference, I have an ironcast rule about drinking to excess on this wagon.

  Michael Malone : I'm used to ironcast rules.

  Christopher Hale : Army?

  Michael Malone : No. But the discipline is just the same.

  Christopher Hale : Being used to rules and obeying them are two different things, Mr Malone.