The Southerner (1945)

Betty Field: Nona Tucker

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Quotes 

• Nona Tucker : I wish we could raise him a tombstone.

  Sam Tucker : As for hopes, I've got many.

• Nona Tucker : I reckon we oughta stay.

  Sam Tucker : You really mean that? You ain't just sayin' that to make me feel good?

  Nona Tucker : I'm sayin' it cause I believe you're as good as any man and it's right for you to be your own boss.

• Granny : The way I see it, we ain't gonna have no dinner again tonight.

  Nona Tucker : Never you mind, Granny. For breakfast we'll have a nice big bowl of corn meal mush!

  Granny : When you all look down on my cold dead face in the county pine box, you'll be sorry then! Maybe!

  Nona Tucker : You keep on promisin' Granny. You don't never deliver the goods.

  Granny : Hush your mouth! You can't talk to me like that. You ain't even a real Tucker!

• Nona Tucker : [bringing the cooked possum to the dinner table]  Easy, you'll all get your share.

  Sam Tucker : Hold on, everybody. There's gonna be a blessing. Much obliged, Lord. Looks like the Tuckers are gonna make the grade, after all. Amen.

  Nona Tucker : Granny! Granny gets the first, 'cause she's the youngest.

  Granny : I'd taken the Lord to be a stranger in this house.

  Nona Tucker : Then comes Jotty, 'cause he's the littlest. Then comes Papa, 'cause he caught the possum. And this one's for Zoolie, because he helped him.

  [delivers a portion to the dog] 

  Nona Tucker : And last of all, Daisy and me, 'cause we're the women folk.

• Nona Tucker : Tomorrow, I guess we'll be though with the plowin'.

  Granny : Heh! Through with the plowin'. I'll be jiggered. As if we'd ever get through with the plowin'. I'm goin' back to the house and just sit and wait for my call to glory.

• Sam Tucker : Every time I get plumb wore out, I think about you and Jotty and Daisy, and I ain't quite so tired anymore.

  Nona Tucker : Aw Sam... I just never could get along without you.

  Sam Tucker : Me too, honey. I couldn't live without you.