Lillian Gish credited as playing...
Rachel Cooper
- Rachel Cooper: I'm a strong tree with branches for many birds. I'm good for something in this world, and I know it too.
- Rachel Cooper: John, ain't you going to say hello to your pa?
- John Harper: He's not my pa!
- Rachel Cooper: No, and he ain't no preacher, neither!
- Rachel Cooper: You know, when you're little, you have more endurance than God is ever to grant you again. Children are man at his strongest. They abide.
- Rachel Cooper: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.
- Rachel Cooper: [to Ruby, sobbing in her lap] Child... You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how.
- Rachel Cooper: She'll be losing her mind to a tricky mouth and a full moon, and like as not, I'll be saddled with the consequences.
- [first lines]
- Rachel Cooper: Now you remember, children, how I told you last Sunday about the good Lord going up into the mountain and talking to the people and how he said, "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God"? And how he said that King Solomon in all his glory was not as beautiful as the lilies of the field? And I know you will not forget, "Judge not, lest you be judged," because I explained that to you. And then the good Lord went on to say, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits."
- Rachel Cooper: Where's your Mrs?
- Rev. Harry Powell: Uh, she run off with a drummer... durin' prayer meetin'.