Margaret Carey Quotes in Summer Magic (1963)

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Margaret Carey Quotes:

  • Margaret Carey: It's Julia. She's coming to live with us.

    Gilly Carey: Oh, no!

    Nancy Carey: Oh, please! Not Julia!

    Margaret Carey: I want you two out of those dying gladiator attitudes! Julia is your cousin and a Carey and I don't want you to forget that, ever. Try to remember that Julia's story is rather a sad one. She never even knew her mother! And after her dear father died, the Fergusons very kindly took her in and raised her.

    Nancy Carey: Kindly took her in? George Ferguson had a guilty conscience. He knew those stocks he sold Julia's father were as worthless as ours.

  • Peter Carey: Let me tell her, let me tell her!

    Margaret Carey: Tell me.

    Peter Carey: Well, with this piano, you don't need any hands! You use your feet to make the keys go up and down. And guess what! I played! I played with this leg, and nobody showed me how.

    Margaret Carey: That's your smartest leg.

  • Margaret Carey: The real blow was those mining stocks we'd counted on. The ones George Ferguson got your father to invest in are completely worthless. Not worth the paper they're written on.

    Peter Carey: I'll be very happy to beg. I saw a beggar once with a tin cup full of money.

  • Nancy Carey: We can't afford that horrible little house? Oh, Mother, that's wonderful! Mother, do you remember after Father - well, you remember how we all made ourselves feel better by talking about the things that had been fun with him? And the best thing we thought of was that time we were all in Maine.

    Margaret Carey: And we saw the yellow house in Beulah.

    Nancy Carey: And we peered into the windows, and wasn't it wonderful? And nobody lived there!

    Gilly Carey: Hey, that was years ago. You're wild.

    Peter Carey: I remember it.

    Gilly Carey: You weren't even born!

    Nancy Carey: Well, Mother, a few weeks ago, I decided to try and find out about that yellow house. So I wrote to the postmaster in Beulah, and he answered! His name is Ossium Popham - isn't it a beautiful name?

  • Margaret Carey: Your father loved you and wanted the best for you. It was his dream to live in the country someday. So maybe, maybe he'd be happy to know that we were all together in the yellow house in Beulah.

  • Margaret Carey: Julia, dear!

    Julia Carey: Aunt Margaret!

    Margaret Carey: Welcome to the yellow house! How was your trip?

    Julia Carey: How, it was dreadful! No parlor car on the train, and this wilderness! When I think of last summer, of the glorious times Gladys Ferguson and I had! But I must remember the last thing dear Mrs. Ferguson said to me, "Don't let poverty drag you down, Julia. Keep high thoughts and try not to let them get soiled by the grime of daily living."

    Nancy Carey: Oh, lovely! Especially the part about the grime of daily living.

  • Osh Popham: Mr. Hamilton wants a favor in return.

    Margaret Carey: A favor? From us?

    Osh Popham: Yes, he wants you to find a suitable place for his dear mother's picture.

    Nancy Carey: Of course! Portrait of a lady! Where is it, Osh?

    Osh Popham: Well, he hid it. He hid it away someplace safe. He wrote it down real clear, but it's just gone right out of my head.

    Nancy Carey: Well, if you'll bring the letter, we'll follow the instructions to the last detail. She'll have a place of honor!

    Osh Popham: Well, that's the idea. He wrote something about a simple little vase with flowers on her birthday.

    Nancy Carey: When is it?

    Osh Popham: Well, it seemed to me it was around the fall of the year. On Halloween.

    Margaret Carey: Halloween!

    Osh Popham: People are born on Halloween.

  • Mariah Popham: You never can look on the dark side, livin' with Mr. Popham.

    Margaret Carey: Well, he certainly keeps our spirits up.

    Mariah Popham: That's because you don't get him steady. Hopefulness meals, hopefulness days, hopefulness nights, nothin' but one everlastin' stream of hopefulness! Even when he was a boy, Mr. Popham always looked on the bright side whether there was any or not. Oh, his ma and pa got terrible sick of it!

    Margaret Carey: It's mighty wonderful, seeing the bright side of everything.

    Mariah Popham: Mighty tiring! Now I believe in a cloud that's a first-class cloud, clean and black all the way through. I get mighty tired of Mr. Popham and his silver linings!

    Nancy Carey: Well, we all believe in silver linings and rainbows--

    Mariah Popham: Well, I don't! I expect the worst and I ain't never been disappointed!

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