Patience Quotes in Tears of the Sun (2003)

[last lines]

Patience: We love you, Lena. All of us. We will always love you.

Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks: I love you too.

Danny 'Doc' Kelley: How can they do this?

Patience: This what they do. They cut off the breasts of nursing mothers... so that they'll never again feed their own babies. This is what they do.

Doc Schultz: Patience, you got to stop shooting at people. You know something? If you wasn't such a terrible shot, there wouldn't be a young man alive in all of Purgatory. I heard you shot at Elmer Price in the lobby of the hotel yesterday evening.

Patience: Well, he asked me to marry him!

Doc Schultz: You think that's reason enough to shoot at a man?

Taylor Barton: [Kewpie dolls hit the street in front of the Bartons] What in heaven's name are these?

Bud Barton: That's a Kewpie doll. I won one of them once at the State Fair, time I went to Denver all by myself.

Patience: And got rolled by some floozy!

Bud Barton: Aw, shut up...

Patience: [Trying on a showy dress that Abigail has given her] Ya' think... ya' think I look like a lady of the evening?

Abigail: Wha... What's a "lady of the evening"?

Patience: Oh, Miss Abigail, you DO lead a sheltered life!

Patience: Now I have sworn me a vow that I am going back east to Miss Hunter's College on the Hudson River New York for young ladies of good family and ain't nothing gonna stop me!

Taylor Barton: [Patience Barton - his daughter - is wildly shooting up the town with a rifle] What the hell do ya' think you're doin'!

Patience: I'm teachin' these jackass miners a lesson!

Taylor Barton: [Taylor Barton and son Oroville rush out and subdue Patience as she stops to reload] How many times have I told you not to shoot at people?

Patience: Well, they had it comin'! One of them said something vile to me. He said "Does your mother know you're out, Cecilia?"

Taylor Barton: You consider that grounds for shootin' up the whole town?

Patience: I KNOW what he meant!

Taylor Barton: Well I sure as hell don't!

Patience: [Curious about Latigo Smith's mysterious illness] What's wrong with him, Doc?

Doc Schultz: You know a doc can't talk about his patients, Patience.

Latigo: I don't like anything west of Riverside Drive.

Patience: Where's that?

Latigo: New York City.

Patience: On the Hudson River?

Latigo: Yeah, born and raised there.

Patience: Tell me about it!

Latigo: Tell you what about it?

Patience: ALL!

Latigo: Well let's see, they, they don't carry guns. And they got a cop on every street corner to keep people from shootin' one another.

Patience: Imagine that there was something wrong with you, Mr. Poole. And you did this seemingly meaningless thing, put your hand on a wall, and you were healed.