Mother York Quotes in Sergeant York (1941)

Rosie York: Ma, what're they fighin' for over there?

Mother York: Don't rightly know, Child. Don't rightly know.

[Alvin puts a handful of dirt onto a plate at the table and pushes it toward his mother]

Mother York: That there's bottom land soil, ain't it? Queer how the folks on the bottom looks down on the folks on the top. It was always that way. No changin' it!

Alvin: I'm gonna *get* us a piece of bottom land!

Mother York: Your pa set out to get a piece of bottom land once. Nary a man ever tried any harder! Liked to *kill* hisself tryin'!