Memorable Quotes from Petula Clark
5 quotesDebate Over Legality of Local Ordinance
Senator Billboard Rawkins
You've been violating the law, here.
Finian McLonergan
Since when?
Senator Billboard Rawkins
This afternoon. I just finished drafting this. Local ordinance number 7428: be it known that in the county of Rainbow Valley, it is a felony for members of the Caucasian and Negro races...
[reading]
Finian McLonergan
But it seems to me that this law could not be a legal law...
Senator Billboard Rawkins
Of course it's legal! I don't know where you immigrants get these radical, foreign ideas!
Sharon McLonergan
From a wee book the immigration officer handed us. It's called The United States Constitution.
Finian McLonergan
Haven't you read it?
Senator Billboard Rawkins
I don't have time to read it, I'm too busy defending it!
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Cultural Differences Between America and Ireland
Finian McLonergan
What do you think makes America different from Ireland?
Sharon McLonergan
It has more Irishmen?
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Dispute Over Ownership of Gold
Sharon McLonergan
It's gold!
[looking in Finian's bag]
Finian McLonergan
Aye, it's a pot of gold.
Sharon McLonergan
And you stole it!
Finian McLonergan
I did not steal it! I only borrowed.
Sharon McLonergan
Who did you borrow it from?
Finian McLonergan
Why do you want to know?
Sharon McLonergan
So we can lend it right back to him, that's why!
Finian McLonergan
That's impossible! He's not mortal.
Sharon McLonergan
You killed him!
Finian McLonergan
Of course not! He never was mortal. He's a leprechaun.
Sharon McLonergan
A leprechaun?
Finian McLonergan
Of course! Who else would have gold in Ireland?
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Wealth and Poverty in America
Finian McLonergan
America is full of millionaires.
Sharon McLonergan
But Father, are there no ill clad or ill housed in America?
Finian McLonergan
Aye, but they're the best ill clad and the best ill housed in the world.
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The Legend of the Rainbow's Promise
Woody Mahoney
How'd you get so pretty? And so rich?
Sharon McLonergan
Well, you see, in Glocca Morra, where we come from, there's an old legend, and it says: You'll never grow old and you'll never grow poor, if you look to the rainbow, beyond the next moor.
Woody Mahoney
That's a lovely legend.
Sharon McLonergan
Aye.
Woody Mahoney
I wonder who thought it up.
Sharon McLonergan
My father: Finian McLonnergan.
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