Sergeant York Quotes

Alvin The way I figure, there ain't no use for a fellow going out looking for ]. It's well… it's just got to come to a fellow.

Pastor Rosier Pile It'll come my boy, you'll see. Maybe slow-like the way daylight comes, and maybe in flash like a bolt of ].

Alvin When?

Pastor Rosier Pile When you ain't even ] it.

Alvin Well, I ] so.

Alvin Well I'm as much agin killin as ever, sir. But it was this way, Colonel. When I started out, I felt just like you said, but when I hear them machine guns a-goin', and all them fellas are droppin around me... I figured them guns was killin hundreds, maybe thousands, and there weren't ] anybody could do, but to stop them guns. And that's what I done.

Maj. Buxton Do you mean to tell me that you did it to save lives?

Alvin Yes sir, that was why.

Alvin C. York What we done in ], we had to do. And some as done it, didn't come back, and that kind of thing ain't for buying and selling.

Quotes about Sergeant York In 1941, on the eve of the ] entry into the ], ] consented to having his diary adapted to film, personally selecting ] to portray him as a condition for the filming. The film would be universally acclaimed as one of the best film biographies of all time, earning an Oscar for Best Actor for Cooper and an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. It was a straightforward adaptation of the diary with very little Hollywood embellishment; the only embellishment which York acknowledged was that the film showed his born-again ] as due to being struck by ] on his way to a confrontation with a rival, whereas it was actually simply his meeting his future wife and falling in ].

Pastor Rosier Pile See that ], Alvin? You've been plowin around that rock a heap o years.

Alvin Sure have!

Pastor Rosier Pile Did you ever think when you start plowin yer furrows crooked, it's mighty hard to get em straight again?

Alvin I never thought on it much.

Pastor Rosier Pile It's that-a-way, I reckon, with other things sides plowin'. ]'s got ya by the shirt tail, Alvin!

Gracie Williams Folks say you're no ], ceptin for ] and ]-raising.

Alvin C. York : Therefore, render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto ] the things that are God's.

Alvin C. York ] sure do move in ] ways.

Ike Botkin Ain't nobody ever cut 5 centers, lessen it were ].

Sgt. Early Remember, guys, you're usin ] live ammunition! A bullet hasn't got any ]! It'll hit whatever you're aimin at, so don't start murdering each other!

Quotes about Sergeant York * Lyle F. Padilla and Raymond J. Castagnaro, in ; the account of York selecting Cooper was apparently a long standing deception, which Cooper himself had believed.

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Pastor Rosier Pile War's way to the other side of the ocean, Alvin. Lots of things can happen before you get there. You put your trust in the Lord, and He'll look out for you.

Alvin I done forgot the Lord! I ain't never gonna forget him again!

Major Buxton York, What do you suppose ] was looking for when he went out into the ]?

Alvin Well, I never thought much on it.

Major Buxton Was he looking for new lands?

Alvin Might be.

Major Buxton Maybe, maybe for something more, something that a man just can't see with his ], or hold in his ]. Something that some men don't even ] they have until they've ] it.

Alvin Yes, sir?

Major Buxton To be free. Now that's quite a word, "]" — I think that's what he wanted. I think that's what sent Boone into your Tennessee country.

Alvin That… that what this here book's about?

Major Buxton Yep. That's the story of a whole people's struggle for freedom, from the very ] until ] — for we're still struggling. It's quite a ] York, how they all got together and set up a ], whereby all men were pledged to defend the ] of each man, and each man to defend the the rights of ] men. We call that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Alvin I don't want to be no corporal.

Captain Danforth Why not?

Major Buxton Wait a minute, captain, let him talk.

Alvin Well, you see…

Major Buxton Is it because of your religious convictions, York?

Alvin Yes, sir, that's it. You see, I believe in ], and I'm a ] that this here ] we're living is something ] done ] us, and we got to be a-living it as best we can — and I'm figuring that ] other folks is no part of what he was intending us to be a-doing here.

Alvin C. York I ain't a-goin to ]. War's ], and ]'s agin killin! So war is agin the book!

Pusher Ross An you haven't even seen a subway?

Alvin I ain't never even heerd o one.

Pusher Ross Heerd'? heerd What kind o talk is that? Do they all talk that kind of English where you come from?

Alvin Well there ain't any English people down our way - just Americans.

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Sergeant Where did ya ] to shoot York?

Alvin Well I ain't never learned Sergeant! Folks back home used to say I could shoot a rifle before I was weaned, but they was exaggeratin some.