Cole Thornton: Just a minute, son. Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.... Cole: Lord almighty. Mississippi: Yeah, well, that's why most people call me Mississippi. I was born on the river in a flatboat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tommy: You're gonna have trouble with that one. Milo: Oh no I'm not. He's just not housebroken yet, that's all.... Tommy: When are you going to stop getting yourself involved with young itinerant artists? It never works. If they're no good, you're ashamed. And if they are, they get independent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dizzy: Say, don't you think about anything but flying? When did the bug first bite you? Tommy: You remember the day Lindy cam...e back from Paris?... I was only a kid, but I'll never forget it. They wrote "Welcome Home" with smoke across the sky and signed it QB.... I didn't even know what QB meant. Then someone told me about the quiet burglar. Old pilots joining together to help the flying game. I loved that. They seemed apart from ordinary people. Dizzy: Oh they were. That, that first QB hanger was a great place. Each pilot had his own drinking mug, and whenever one got bumped off, they put the mug on the shelf over the bar, bottom up, and your first drink was always a silent toast to the shelf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tommy is three and when he's bad his mother dances with him.... She puts on the record, "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" and throws him across the room.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mississippi: I told you I was no good with a gun. Bull: The trouble is Doc, Cole was in front of the gun. The safe place is b...ehind Mississippi when he shoots that thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;... And if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »