Ms. Stone: [See you later.] If I'm not here, you can come to my funeral.

Ms. McGuire: [How are you?] I'm crazy. I'm in this nursing home for now but they're going to put me in jail so I have a place to sleep.

Mr. Yates: My doctor friend came to see me today. He has four boys, only boys. His daughter got married last year.

Can you figure out how she still walks?

Ms. Golden: It hurts me to know I'm like Van Winkle, who is it? Dan Van Winkle, you know, the one who was for so long. I never knew I'd be like this. I used to be so smart, too.

I can't hear loud.

My shoulder is so bad I can't walk.

I wonder when I started talking like I didn't know nothing.

Then I married Mr. Golden and we lived till he died.

Ms. Whitman: [What's the matter? (She was yelling for help.)] I don't know, if I did, I'd hush.

Ms. Golden: My sister lived in New York City. What's the name of that big city in New York City that everybody likes to go to?

There's many more people in the sheaves.

Ms. Hill: Thank you Lord in my, in my, Paradise. It's. It's. It's terrible in my throat.

Ms. Dudley: [Are your parents still living?] I wish they would tell me if they are.

Ms. Golden: Old people aren't worth a shit, you know that?

Ms. Pennington: [What kind of place is this you're staying in?] This is a house with vinyl siding or not that but that type of house covering that is made of plastic but you can paint on it and all.

[What is tupperware?] It's a plastic thing you can cook in or not cook in or you can put things in it for looks or whatever you like.

[What can you eat that is sweet?] Oh, bananas, cookies pies cakes, cookies cakes, cookies again, candy and all sorts of things.

I ain't a vegetable. Some people may say so though.

Ms. Harris: I'm just waiting for something to happen around here. (Like what?) A world crisis.

Ms. Bright: If ya'll will open the door, then I'll get out of here.

I ain't seen nor felt anything.

Ms. Bright: Are you here to talk to the people in my closet?

Howell: Talking with you was wonderful and dramatic.

Ms. Latham: I have 3 children. They're grown. All finished college. I have 2 grandchildren and they're just like bulbs in a ball. I have 2 brothers and 3 sisters, I believe.

Mr. Oldham: Sit in that chair over there.
Me: No, it's too low.
Mr. Oldham: Yeah, I know, I like to see you fall into it.

Mr. Oldham: I hit my head this morning. Can you see it? It feels red.

Mr. Oldham: My little brother started hating me. 'Cause he couldn't whoop me. He was living by himself in a boarding house. He had a wife and kids but his sons couldn't stand him. He liked to beat on his son. He was a little fellow and you know how they are, he thought he could beat everyone.

Mr. Oldham: I didn't fight to hurt people. I fought to whoop 'em. It was fun to me.

Ms. Harris: You here to record what I eat? I don't care if you write this down but it was a potato about this big and it was so tough that meat was so cold and dessicated you couldn't even eat it. I'd be ashamed to serve food like that.

Ms. Harris: I'm tired, shoot she beat on me. She made me work har.

Ms. Harris: Did you hurting Jack, did you hurting him today? He had 3 cardiograms that are hot that he puts on it to make it feel better.

Ms. Harris: They don't know how old I am. I wrote it down more times than they can imagine.

Ms. Harris: Some people are so bad you can't look at them.

Mr. Denham: [about my long hair] You need to make me your assistant and I can move all those cables hanging down for you.

Ms. Harris: We're not up to anything. If we were, we couldn't do it.

Ms. Harris: We had a jelly roll for lunch. I guess it's just called a roll, though.

Ms. Harris: There's two little girl who can't raise their leg high enough to say good morning. It makes them sick.

Ms. Harris: They lock you in that bed, sometimes they let you out for supper, then wrap you up and throw you back in bed. "You belong there" that's what they say.

Ms. Harris: What does that little Indian hand do?

Me: I'll check on you later.
Mr. Oldham: You'll step on my liver?

Ms. Latham: I have about 10 children. I have about 16 brothers and sisters. We don't have that many.

Ms. Falcone: Honey, I'm gonna spit this out, you better catch it, because it's coming out.

Ms. Erwin: You sit up here, I'll sit down there, you have a lot more to think about.

Ms. Yates: While I'm out pickin' cotton out in the field, you make me a snack and then ya'll go pick cotton while I eat it.

Ms. Erwin: Did you go? It's just dummy to me.

Ms. Yates: A man depends on a woman for a lot of things. It's not necessary but he does. Be sweet to him and he'll be weet to you, maybe.

Ms. Yates: If you leave, keep your cotton clean and don't put no sticks in it.

Mr. Russell: You've spoiled me, you'll have to do this again. [on bringing him some water]

Ms. Harris: This lady that everyone liked, she's the superintendent or something, I think, she came in and said you know you're not supposed to get in bed by yourself, if you do that too many times we'll put you on the floor and not give you any covers but if they do that, I'll just walk right out on my bare feet. And then the girls took me to the bathhouse and gave me a bath.

Ms. Harris: He has only fallen 3 times to amount to anything in his life.

Ms. Harris: Yes, I did get my bath, why do you smell it?

Ms. Harris: She's just a public, I guess you'd call it.

Ms. Harris: Dinner won't be anything good, it hasn't been good two nights in a row.

Ms. Harris: I like my housekeeper. She doesn't talk much but she's nice. [referring to roommate]

Ms. Hale: I won't eat much, maybe I won't have to pee.

Ms. Latham: I think there was 10 children. I think there were 14 of us brothers and sisters.

Ms. Willie: I was double, maybe triple busy yesterday. I had the worst diarrhea.

Ms. Hale: I don't want to answer any questions. You know all the answers anyway. It don't help you none.

Ms. Hale: [about being in a nursing home] It's better than nothing, just barely.

Ms. Hale: These days people don't know what love is. They all get married and just have babies. That's all they do is have babies and bring too many of them into the world. My niece after she got married, she had a bunch one right after another but my sister put a shop with that. Next time you come back they'll probably have a dozen a piece.

Ms. Bollen: You just wanted to come in here and eat my candy. You don't want to help me.

Ms. Harris: I rolled this wheelbarrow over to the door and sat there a while. I met a lady who was crazy as a bat but she was nice enough.

Ms. Harris: My kids, I don't enjoy them they way I ought to. They say, now Mother, why don't you do this or why don't you do that? And I think why don't you just shut up?

Ms. Yates: Herschell's mother brought those flowers. [Herschell is her son, therefore _she_ would be Herschell's mother]

Ms. Latham: I have 4 children. I have 2 brothers and 1 sister.

Mr. Oldham: They said I had Social Security and something else but it was going to run out so they moved me over here. Do you know what I'm talking about? Because I don't.

Ms. Erwin: That's nice! That's mi mi mi that's good!

Ms. Hale: They let us sleep late and be in bed so we'll be out of the way and I don't blame them.

Ms. Harris: They came and talked about the booster board to me.

Ms. Harris: I'm so worried about my husband. I don't know why he doesn't call me. Well I know why, I don't have a telephone and he doesn't have a telephone either.

Ms. Harris: Every time I went to write a telephone message, I couldn't remember the telephone number.

Ms. Harris: The town was run by the Catholics. They had houses but they weren't like our house. They made good piegotcha. The guest of it is bread and you fill the bread with cheese and meat and you let it come to process feelin lik it's going to be cheese and milk one day. You have a sauce on it, it's just butter and you spread enough on it to make it good. If you just tasted it it'd be good, the way they make crows feet and all. It came from the Slaivish, I guess, the Slovaks.

Ms. Latham: I have 5 children, I think. There were 7 brothers. I had 2 sisters.

Ms. Latham: Did I eat eggs? I don't drink so.

Ms. Latham: We went through a real serious war. I lost a brother to the war. That was terrific. I hate to think about it.

Ms. Latham: When you get as old as I am, you like to forget about them. [birthdays]

Ms. Latham: Yesterday I went to church. A baptist church but it was way out. We probably went by horse and buggy. Or a mule for sure.

Ms. Yates: [while getting her hair brushed] Now if I go to sleep, don't you wake me up.

Ms. Erwin: That's a lice name.

Ms. Erwin: It was ok. It was just yak yak. But that's what you have to eat around here.

Ms. Harris: [about her roommate] This woman she's the best thing ever. She doesn't hear me when I talk and I don't guess she pays for anything because she just comes and goes as she pleases.

Ms. Harris: I tell you, I know I've been bad. I don't listen to anybody. These people, they don't interest me. So I don't go out and look for friends or anything.

Mr. Bollen: I'm not getting none therapy. It's just a bunch of play. They call it group therapy but it's just a bunch of people getting together and having fun.

Ms. Latham: I have about 5 or 6 children. I think I have 4 brothers and sisters.

Ms. Latham: What did I do? Well, the usual thing of cook, served dinner, go to church at night. My brother came home for a while, he was in the service.

Ms. Latham: When was my birthday? Every Sunday?

Ms. Latham: 96? I'm not that old. I am? Oh well, whatever. I'm here. Still here.

Ms. Falcone: I ate all my oatmeal? Are you sure? I probably spit it out in my towel and dumped it over here. [She did]

Ms. Falcone: [About her roommate, who likes to eat, while Ms. Falcone does not] Her? She'd eat a dead cat if you put it in front of her.

Mr. Cargo: They're supposed to put me to bed after the trial. My trial. I'm supposed to have molested a nurse but I haven't touched a woman in 5 years and that's a cold hard fact. It's just a damn show for the press.

Ms. McGuire: Will you help me catch the streetcar?

Mr. Smith: Hey lady, would you wait a minute and see if I have anything in my pockets? Feel and see if she has anything in her pockets.

Mr. Smith: When did you bring that buggy in yonder? [about a wheelchair]

Ms. Johnson: Mary Mary, how does your garden grow? It doesn't. I don't water it.

Ms. Erwin: I wouldn't laid him, say anything to him.

Ms. Erwin: There was a man across over there and he got lunch at the same time and I got one on my neck and had to bat them off and tell them I was just not going to go there.

Ms. Erwin: I wasn't afraid of going because some of them come back and there's a place to place to place to go but I was afraid to go because no one told me to go.

Ms. Erwin: I just sit around and hollar and messa mess and make a mess!

Ms. Erwin: And when his wife or girl or whatever, it's one of those things.

Ms. Erwin: The people over there are nice. Most of them are blak but I dont' mard mon marl that because I've got to do that too.

Ms. Erwin: All of them are sweet and you, you is the better, you is the betterest!

Ms. Harris: I wish you would ak her to smell of her coat. It stinks to high heaven from her smoking. It's just ick and she puts it in her closet. I don't know if she knows it stinks, I've never seen her smell of it. [about her roommate]