Jupiter Sharts Quotes in Glory (1989)

Jupiter Sharts: [praying aloud] Tommorrow we goes into battle, so Lordy, let me fight with the rifle in one hand, and the Good Book in the other. So that if I may die at the muzzle of the rifle... die on water, or on land, I may know that you blessed Jesus almighty are with me... and I have no fear.

Jupiter Sharts: [seeing that Thomas is reading] Good book, brother?

Cpl. Thomas Searles: Yes it is, actually. The name's Searles, Thomas Searles.

Jupiter Sharts: Jupiter Sharts, sir. What it 'bout, that book?

Cpl. Thomas Searles: It's a collection of essays, actually... Fourier, Emerson... all the transcendentalists.

Jupiter Sharts: [nods smiling] It got pictures?