The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971 TV Movie)

Edgar Bergen: Grandpa Zebb Walton

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• Olivia Walton : Papa, it's awful slippery outside. Nobody's gonna expect you to ring the church bells tonight.

  Ebenezer Walton : Well, the Methodists will be ringin' in Christmas, and so will the Episcopals. Well, the Baptist bell is gonna be ringin' right along with 'em.

• John-Boy : Grandpa, do we got something to show we own Walton's Mountain?

  Grandpa : You can't own a mountain any more than you can own an ocean or a piece of the sky. You hold it in trust. You live on it, you take life from it, and once you're dead, you rest in it.

  John-Boy : I'd just as soon not think about that part.

  Grandpa : You're not ready for it yet.

  John-Boy : Are you?

  Grandpa : Never!

• Grandpa : There's your tree, Boy!

  John-Boy : Woo-hoo! She's a dandy, Grandpa!

  Grandpa : It's the one I've watched grow all the time of its life.

  John-Boy : You sure know how to pick'em!

• Grandpa : This is fought-for land.

  John-Boy : Battles right here?

  Grandpa : More than one: flood, fire, freezing weather, diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, loneliness, hard times.

  John-Boy : I thought you meant wars.

  Grandpa : Them too.

• Grandpa : It'll never come to that. Franklin D. Roosevelt is gonna put this country on its feet again. You watch my words.

  John-Boy : [Imitating FDR]  My friends, and you are my friends...

  Grandma : Now, you hush with that disrespect! He's your President.