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Cimarron Quotes

Yancy Cravat: Wife and mother, stainless woman, hide me... hide me in your love.

Sol Levy: They will always talk about Yancy. He's gonna be part of the history of the great Southwest. It's men like him that build the world. The rest of them, like me... why, we just come along and live in it.

Yancy Cravat: Sugar, if we all took root and squatted, there would never be any new country.

Sabra Cravat: Did you have to kill him?
Yancy Cravat: No, I could have let him kill me.

Yancy Cravat: Why, it'll be all over the southwest that Yancy Cravat was hiding behind a woman's petticoat!
Sabra Cravat: But you didn't! They can't say so! You shot him there nicely in the ear, darling.
Yancy Cravat: Well, you shouldn't interfere when men are having a little friendly shootin'.

Sabra Cravat: Do you feel nervous about your sermon, dear?
Yancy Cravat: I'd rather plead to a Texas jury than preach to this gang.

Mrs. Tracy Wyatt: One of my ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Sol Levy: That's all right. A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses, wrote the Ten Commandments.

Yancy Cravat: I'll show them first crack that the Oklahoma Wigwam prints all the news all the time - knowing no law except the law of God and the government of the United States. Say, that's a pretty good slogan! Top of the page - just ahead of the editorial column!

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Movie Quotes

1930s Oscar Winners for Best Picture:
1939: Gone with the Wind
1938: You Can't Take It with You
1937: The Life of Emile Zola
1936: The Great Ziegfeld
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty
1934: It Happened One Night
1932-1933: Cavalcade
1931-1932: Grand Hotel
1930-1931: Cimarron
1929-1930: All Quiet on the Western Front

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