Pearl Bailey movie quotes

“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
Pearl Bailey

“You must change in order to survive.”
Pearl Bailey

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”
Pearl Bailey

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
Pearl Bailey

“Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything,
except perhaps violence.”
Pearl Bailey

“To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the
devil.”
Pearl Bailey

“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it become either good or sour inside.”
Pearl Bailey

“- Big Mama: Tod, that Copper is going to come back a hunting dog, a real killer.
- Young Tod: Oh no, not my friend Copper. He won't ever change.
- Big Mama: I hope you're right.
- Young Tod: And we'll keep on being friends forever. Right, Big Mama?
- Big Mama: Darling, forever is a long, long time, and time has a way of changing things.”
Pearl Bailey - Big Mama
Keith Coogan - Young Tod

“If you're so foxy, and old Chief's so dumb, then why does that hound get the fox on the run? 'Cause he's got the hunter, and the hunter's got the gun. Kablaam! Elimination. Lack of education.”

Pearl Bailey - Big Mama