Lillian Gish movie quotes

“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.”
Lillian Gish

“Women are such durn fools.”
Lillian Gish - Rachel Cooper

“You know, when you're little, you have more endurance than God is ever to grant you again. Children are man at his strongest. They abide.”
Lillian Gish - Rachel Cooper

“A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.”
Lillian Gish - Rachel Cooper

“It's a hard world for little things.”
Lillian Gish - Rachel Cooper

“I'm a strong tree with branches for many birds. I'm good for something in this world and I know it too.”
Lillian Gish - Rachel Cooper

“Neither your father nor I found happiness in this world, and I'm afraid neither will you.”

Lillian Gish - Laura Belle McCanles

“Garbo's temperament reflected the rain and gloom of the long dark Swedish winters.”
Lillian Gish On Greta Garbo

“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.”
Lillian Gish On Lionel Barrymore

“- Michael Burgess: Mom, why do you always put your groceries on the TV?
- Cecelia Burgess: I always put them there and keep them there for a week. The radiation kills the poison that they put in them.”
Alan Alda - Michael Burgess
Lillian Gish - Cecelia Burgess

“Don't do it, Daddy! You'll hit me once too often - and then they'll... they'll hang yer!”
Lillian Gish - Lucy - The Girl

“They steal blankets, pots, pans, food, everything! They kidnap your husband! A great nation? Conquerors? Thieves - that's what they are! They ought to be handled in a police court!”

Lillian Gish - Mrs. Bergesen

“We will ask mercy from the Great Heart.”

Lillian Gish - Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter

“- Lucy - The Girl: 'Tain't nothin' wrong! 'Tain't nothin' wrong! I fell down in the doorway and - it wasn't nothin' wrong!
- Battling Burrows: I'll learn yer! I'll learn yer!”
Lillian Gish - Lucy - The Girl
Donald Crisp - Battling Burrows

“We shall crush the white South under the heel of the black South.”
Lillian Gish - Elsie - Stoneman's Daughter