The Green Pastures (1936)

George Reed: Mr. Deshee, Isaac

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• Mr. Deshee : Fish fries with boiled custard. 10-cent cigars for the adults. God give us humans lots of ideas about good-timin'. Maybe from the things he'd seen the angels do.

• Mr. Deshee : Now how do you think you're going to like the Bible?

  Myrtle : I think it's just wonderful, Mr. Deshee. I can't understand any of it.

• Carlisle Randall : What good is a cloud like that, then?

  Mr. Deshee : I don't know. Maybe De Lawd just use them for sofa pillows.

  Carlisle Randall : What he do, lay his head on them?

  Mr. Deshee : Maybe so.

• Mr. Deshee : Now, Randolph, if you don't listen, how you expect to grow up to be a good man? You want to grow up to be a transgressor?

• Mr. Deshee : After they got into the land of Canaan, they went to the dogs again. They even went into bondage again. But this time, it was in the wicked city of Babylon.

  Myrtle : What did they do that was so wicked?

  Mr. Deshee : They blasphemed and sinned against De Lawd and a lots of things that you wouldn't understand yet. Just a grownup knows what I mean. Just like a all-night barrelhouse over in New Orleans.