Quotes

[Ohio8]

Kate: "I knew you'd be a success with that beautiful voice of yours."

[MA]

Selma Plout:
[about the decorations outside the hotel] Well, what's all this?

Uncle Joe Carson:
Oh, hi Selma. Kate's coming home.

Selma Plout:
So I hear. Nobody made this much fuss when I returned from my trip.

Uncle Joe Carson:
That's right. We did all our cheering when you left.

[Ohio8]

Kate: "I've seen half-starved hound dogs look happier than that."

Sam: "It's the biggest event since the openin' of the store."

Kate: "Bein' thin can have its advantages."

__________ Jo: "Welll, it's a record."

[AB]

Billie Jo:

[MA]

Mrs. Finch:
[about the baby, Kathy Jo] Oh, isn't she darling.

Uncle Joe Carson:
Yeah. Who do you think she looks like?

Mrs. Finch:
Well, she has the Bradley nose, and Bradley mouth and chin.

Uncle Joe Carson:
Don't you see any Carson in her?

Mrs. Finch:
Yes! The way she's laying down.

[Ohio8]

Floyd: "Kate, should I put on my conductor's suit, or is it just home folks gettin' off?"

Homer Bedloe: (to Sam)"Who in blue blazes is Kate Bradley?"

Homer: "Well, what do the boys think they're operating? A train or a taxi?"

Homer: "Well, if this isn't the nuttiest..."

Homer: "I'll melt the whole works for paperweights!"

Kate: "The Hooterville Cannonball waits for nobody."

Betty Jo: "You know what I think? The Cannonball needs a boiler wash."

Homer: "This isn't a train, it's a rolling booby hatch."

Uncle Joe: "It gives the hotel class."

Kate: "...angry words never settled any problem."

Kate: (to the Cannonball)"Don't you worry, old girl. We've been through a lot together, and we'll get through this too."

[Ohio8]

Charlie: "Floyd, are you burnin' railroad ties again?"
Floyd: "Charlie, I just burned the loose ones. Besides, we needed a quick fire."

Kate: "We'll get her a piece of toast."

Kate: "You keep your big beak closed except for eatin'."

Uncle Joe: "Kate, this is your morning for lucky blunders."

Kate: "Uncle Joe, that sour face is not welcome in the dining room."
Uncle Joe: "Then what'd you bring him in here for?"

Kate: "Some women don't care about cookin'."

Floyd: "Ohh, I'd sure to like to be in his shoes right now."

Homer: "Forget it. It won't work."

Uncle Joe: "You know, fightin' a railroad's a man's job."

[Ohio8]

Norman Curtis: "Gentlemen, I tell you the Hooterville Cannonball is through!"

Norman: "Gentlemen, we'll send our diesels through there so fast!, those Hooterville hicks will think they're living on a launching pad."

Kate: "...the president of this railroad makes Bedloe look like a Sunday school teacher."

Uncle Joe: "Kate, you're the worst judge of character I've ever seen."

[MA]

Uncle Joe Carson:
As the chief, I've always been worried about the one weak link in the fire department.

Kate Bradley:
So you've decided to resign.

[Ohio8]

________ Jo: "Why didn't he take the letter?"
Kate: "Because that would be too easy."

Sam: "Stealin' stamps is a Federal offense."

Sam: "I've been busier than an Adam's apple at a yodelin' contest."

[MA]

Uncle Joe Carson:
Friends, how many times have you sat in the living room staring at your wife, wishing you had somebody to talk to?

[AB]

Kate & Joe:

[MA]

Uncle Joe Carson:
You keep eatin' like that and you're gonna have to back up to a door to knock on it.

[AB]

Steve:

[MA]

Oliver Wendell Douglas:
Lisa, how could you possibly have made a deal with Mr. Carson?

Lisa Douglas:
But, he made such good sense.

Kate Bradley:
Uncle Joe made good sense?

Lisa Douglas:
Yes. He agreed with everything I said.