Kathy Bates credited as playing...
Maurine Collier
- Maurine Collier: I was taught to honor your father and mother. That's what I've tried to teach... I guess I'm not good enough to deserve that kind of respect!
- Karen Collier: Of course you are.
- Maurine Collier: [Karen preheats the oven and comes back to the table]
- [about Jeremy]
- Maurine Collier: I just don't understand what went wrong. His whole life he was so grown-up, so polite.
- Karen Collier: War changes people.
- Maurine Collier: War doesn't make you rude to your parents!
- Maurine Collier: Well, unless we're going to have a nuclear attack of some kind, it's hard to imagine what else could go wrong.
- Maurine Collier: I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.
- Jeremy Collier: What about the Indians?
- Maurine Collier: Oh, Jeremy, there were no Indians at the first Thanksgiving.
- Jeremy Collier: That's why they have it. The Indians saved the Pilgrims from starvin' to death, so the Pilgrims invited the Indians to share their first harvest feast.
- Maurine Collier: Well, I'm sure the Indians were all Christians by then.
- Jeremy Collier: Oh no, they weren't.
- Maurine Collier: What the hell are you trying to do?
- Jeremy Collier: Nothing.
- [walks away]
- Maurine Collier: [calls after him] What is the matter with you?
- Jeremy Collier: You are what's the matter with me!
- Uncle Howe: I always say, you give me forty-five minutes and a Bible and I can prove conclusively that Noah's Ark could not have been in Turkey!
- Brenda: Oh, he can.
- Maurine Collier: I should study my Bible more.
- Uncle Howe: Well, it had to be somewhere, now, I don't know where exactly, well, I'm not up on it like I should be. But somewhere in the Alps.