Glory (1989)

Jihmi Kennedy: Pvt. Jupiter Sharts

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Quotes 

• John Rawlins : Where about you from?

  Trip : I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back.

  Sharts : What ya doin' since then?

  Trip : I run for President.

  [laughter] 

  Trip : I didn't win though.

• Jupiter Sharts : [praying aloud]  Tommorrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle... die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me... and I have no fear.

• Sgt. Mulcahy : Company, halt!

  [to Sharts] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : For God's sake, man! Do you not know your right from your left?

  Sharts : N-n-no, sah.

  Sgt. Mulcahy : How many here do not know right from left?

  [Half a dozen hands are raised] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : [mutters]  Jesus have pity.

  [smacks Sharts in the chest] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *front*!

  [slaps his back] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *rear*!

  [stomps on his right foot] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : This is your *right*!

  [goes to stomp on his left foot] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : And this...!

  [Sharts lifts his foot out of the way] 

  Sgt. Mulcahy : Now you're learnin', boy-o!

• Sharts : I wonder when they gonna give us the blue suits.

  Trip : [laughs]  Where you from, boy?

  Sharts : South Carolina.

  Trip : South Carolina? Well, then you ought to know better than that, boy.

• Jupiter Sharts : [seeing that Thomas is reading]  Good book, brother?

  Cpl. Thomas Searles : Yes it is, actually. The name's Searles, Thomas Searles.

  Jupiter Sharts : Jupiter Sharts, sir. What it 'bout, that book?

  Cpl. Thomas Searles : It's a collection of essays, actually... Fourier, Emerson... all the transcendentalists.

  Jupiter Sharts : [nods smiling]  It got pictures?