Ms. Erwin: What's that? Your hair is pretty and you're not so pretty.

Ms. Erwin: My mother tells me not to get wet outside, but it does, I do, it did.

Ms. Erwin: Sittin' right there, you'll be dead if you don't move around! [to her roommate, who she doesn't like so much]

Ms. Yates: [about her son] I had him in the morning. The aunt and uncle had come in the night before from way off. I was so happy cause he had a head of hair and blue eyes. And they just had a fit over him, he cried and she cried. And he wanted him named after him but I didn't want it. But Barney [husband] said to let him and I said I don't care. Name him whatever you want. So he's named Mart Lillie. They just named him. They didn't let me know they named him. I just said that's all right. I had those babies one right after another. They were doing me just like they wanted to.

Mr. Oldham: [about his drinks, he is on thickened liquids] This milk ain't no good. They collect all the water in those cisterns and it ain't no good for the cows. This milk got all clabbered.

Mr. Oldham: In Minnesota, that water up there, you have to take a sip of water and I have to take a sip of whiskey to get the taste of it out of my mouth, that's how bad the water was up there. I took my brother up there to the hospital, he was paralyzed. I gave him a bath one day. I picked him up and put him in there. That ol' water up there it's that ol' soft water. I couldn't get all that soap off him. I don't know how he got all that soap on him but I rinsed him and rinsed him till I just got ashamed of myself. I had to fill up the bath 3 or 4 times trying to rinse him off. But I never could, that ol' soft water, it's slick anyway. Finally I just gave up and it came out alright.

Mr. Oldham: I had to quit my own self though. They didn't stop me. [about smoking]

Mr. Oldham: I had 7 sisters and there were 5 boys. My momma had them all and my daddy furnished them, I reckon. She didn't call me a smart alek, she called me a dumb ass.

Mr. Oldham: [about his wife] All my money got blowed away. Gladys blowed it away, I didn't blow it away.

Mr. Oldham: The dietician she skipped me. She asks me what all I like to eat and then gives me everything I don't want.

Mr. Oldham. My brother he used to kid me and hold me down and put a dress on me and hang my pants on the line outside. In the meantime, he'd go around to all the neighbors and tell them I had a dress on so I couldn't go outside and get my pants.

Mr. Oldham: My momma, she loved me. She wouldn't have gotten much exercise if it wasn't for me - whipping my butt. I guess that's how my butt got so big.