The Egg and I (I) (1947)

Claudette Colbert: Betty

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• Betty MacDonald : They don't want us here - The wind and the mountains and the rain - They're fighting us all the time. We've got to get out of this place before it's too late!

• Betty MacDonald : I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

• Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : Take another one of them cookies, why don't ya? Plenty where they come from. I'll get you some to take home.

  Betty MacDonald : They're wonderful. How do you make them?

  Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : Just a drop of this and a drop of that, mix it together and shove it in the oven.

• Frank 'Pa' Kettle : Got the water tank up. Will have running water any minute now.

  Betty MacDonald : Oh, thanks. Isn't that a relief?

  Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle : Never seen the sense of running water in my house m'self. 'Drather get mine straight out of the ground where the good lord put it.

• Betty MacDonald : I've never been to a county fair before.

  Bob : You haven't lived.