Jethro Quotes in The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Jethro: [singing] A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shine, can never see its purpose in the pattern of the grand design. And the stone that sits on the very top of the mountain's mighty face, does it think it's more important than the stones that form the base? So how can you see what your life is worth, or where your value lies? You can never see through the eyes of man... You must look at your life, look at your life through Heaven's eyes!

Jethro: When all you've got is nothing, there's a lot to go around.

Jethro: You have come far.

Moses: From Egypt.

Jethro: Across the desert on foot? He who has no name surely guided your steps.

Moses: No name? You Bedouins know the god of Abraham?

Jethro: Abraham is the father of many nations. We are the children of Ishmael, his firstborn. We are the obedient of God.

Moses: My people look to him for deliverance... but they are still in bondage.

Jethro: [greeting Davy Crockett] Morning, Colonel, He's still sleeping.

Davy Crockett: [grins] I'll take care of that, Jethro.

[kicks open door, throws bucket of water on Jim Bowie]

Jethro: Colonel Travis, I'm an old man... but you're wrong.

[Jethro and Cousin Pearl are driving in the truck to Jed's place]

Cousin Pearl: Jethro, did you take care of those old brakes like I told you to?

Jethro: Yes, Ma, I pulled them off the truck yesterday. The new brakes should be coming in the mail next week.

[Jethro is about to drive past a tree with a branch]

Jethro: Watch your head, Granny!

[Granny, who is tied up to her rocking chair got knocked off from Jethro's car by the tree branch they passed through]

Elly May: I reckon why they got two sets of steps.

Jethro: That's easy! One's for going up, and the other's for going down!

Elly May: Oh.

[Trying to figure out the game of Bowling]

Jethro: I think I got this game figured out. You throw the ball down this gully. Then you throw yourself down the other gully, and try to hit them snake-hittin' clubs before the ball does.

Milburne Drysdale: I'm president of a bank.

Jethro: Wow, can I be president of a bank too?

Jed Clampett: Jethro that was a mighty disrespectful thing to say to Mr. Drysdale. Ask if you can be vice president.

[the Clampetts were flipped off by an irate motorist]

Jed Clampett: Now why you suppose he's doing that?

Jethro: I reckon that's how people wave hello in Beverly Hills.

Laura Jackson: What a stupid idiot.

Jed Clampett: Did you say something, ma'am?

Laura Jackson: What a stupendous intellect.

Jethro: That's cause I "grad-ge-ated" the sixth grade, ma'am. Only took three years.

[on the subject of California]

Elly May: I hear they got smog.

Daisy Mae 'Granny' Moses: What's a smog?

[pause]

Jethro: I reckon it's a small hog.

Jethro: [discussing his theory on bowling] I've finally figured this game out, Spanky. You take this ball, put it in this here gully. It rolls down yonder, then you hurl yourself down this slippery gully, and see how many of them there snake bashing clubs you can knock down before the ball gets there.

Jethro: [looking over buffet during Jed's birthday party] What's all this?

Waiter: Sushi, calamari, caviar.

Jethro: What? Speak American!

Aunt Pearl: You folks oughta move yourselves to a place like... Beverly Hills, Californy.

Jethro: They got swimming pools and movie stars!