Betty Aberlin: Lady Aberlin

Quotes 

• Lady Aberlin : I'm making a program about peace.

  X the Owl : Oh, well peace is a good thing, isn't it?

  Lady Aberlin : I'll say. Would you like to say something about peace?

  X the Owl : Certainly. I think peace is what everybody should have. In fact, I think everybody should have a piece of peace.

  Lady Aberlin : And why do you think it's so good?

  X the Owl : Well, it's that quiet feeling inside that makes you feel all warm and, I don't know, I just like it, I do.

• Keith the Southwood Carpenter : King Friday would like to give a record player to every school in the world.

  Lady Aberlin : What a generous thought, Uncle Friday.

  King Friday XIII : The least we could do. I made a very bad mistake. I thought these fine people were building bombs.

  Betty Okanak Templeton : But, you know we were building a bridge. Don't you, King Friday?

  King Friday XIII : I do now. But my thoughts were very close to war, and I'm very, very, very sorry. I would hope that thanks to you all, beautiful music could be played on record players throughout the world, as a reminder that fine people can and do help others correct their mistakes.

  Lady Aberlin : What a wonderful speech, Uncle Friday.

  Queen Sara Saturday : Yeah, Friday. I'm proud of you.

  King Friday XIII : Thank you. And of course, you all know that Queen Sara is director of the World Peace Movement.

• Lady Aberlin : What do you think of peace?

  Bob Dog : Uh, peace, to me, makes me feel like, umm, dancing!

• Queen Sara Saturday : War is such a terrible waste.

  Lady Aberlin : It certainly is, in so many ways.

  Queen Sara Saturday : Yes.

• Lady Aberlin : What have you been doing?

  Queen Sara Saturday : Well, the minute other countries were hearing that we might start a war here, they started calling. I'm the director of the WPM, you know.

  Lady Aberlin : You're the director of the World Peace Movement, Aunt Sara?

  Queen Sara Saturday : Oh, yes. We work very quietly.

  Lady Aberlin : And very effectively.

• Lady Aberlin : [by the Tree holding a cam-mic]  as I stand here in front of the Tree where eX the Owl and Henrietta Pussycat live in this peaceful neighborhood, I think about how long it took this Tree to grow, and how many people have looked at it and thought about it, and how very small we are.

• Henrietta Pussycat : Meow love meow peace.

  Lady Aberlin : You do?

  Henrietta Pussycat : Meow.

  Lady Aberlin : Can you tell me how it makes you feel?

  Henrietta Pussycat : Meow makes meow purr.

  [purrs] 

  Lady Aberlin : It makes you purr?

  Henrietta Pussycat : Meow.

  Lady Aberlin : Would you like to give three meows for peace?

  Henrietta Pussycat : Meow. Meow, meow, meow!

  X the Owl : And I'd like to give three hoots for peace.

  Lady Aberlin : Oh, go right ahead.

  X the Owl : Hoot, hoot, hoot for peace!

• Lady Aberlin : [filming Handyman Negri and Bob Dog dancing with the Southwood neighbors]  and so we see that the two neighborhoods who were wondering about war are the very same neighborhoods that are now doing the dance of peace. What a good feeling! Now, the only thing that one of the neighborhoods has to solve is the fact that it had spent all its money on bomb parts which it does not need, but its school children do need a record player. So if any of you listening have any ideas about this, please let me know.