TRUE GRIT
TRUE GRIT
Mattie Ross
Mattie Ross
"People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day."
"People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day."
‘They tell me you are a man with true grit.’
‘They tell me you are a man with true grit.’
“That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.”
“That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.”
"Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”
"Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.”
'Time just gets away from us."
'Time just gets away from us."
"This ends my true account of how I avenged Frank Ross's blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground."
"This ends my true account of how I avenged Frank Ross's blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground."
"I always go backwards when I am backing up.” Rooster Cogburn
"I always go backwards when I am backing up.” Rooster Cogburn
“In my country you can ride for days and see no ground water. I have lapped filthy water from a hoofprint and was glad to have it. You don’t know what discomfort is until you have nearly perished for water.”
“In my country you can ride for days and see no ground water. I have lapped filthy water from a hoofprint and was glad to have it. You don’t know what discomfort is until you have nearly perished for water.”
Rooster said, “If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.”
Rooster said, “If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.”
“Then you don’t believe it?” asked LaBoeuf.
“Then you don’t believe it?” asked LaBoeuf.
“I believed it the first twenty-five times I heard it.”
“I believed it the first twenty-five times I heard it.”
“Maybe he did drink from one,” said I. “He is a Texas Ranger.”
“Maybe he did drink from one,” said I. “He is a Texas Ranger.”
“Is that what he is?” said Rooster. “Well now, I can believe that.”
“Is that what he is?” said Rooster. “Well now, I can believe that.”
