This isn’t Jeopardy but - a gold star to the first person who answers correctly S Where is this quote from?
“Painted on one side of our Sunday School wall were the words, God Is Love. We always assumed that these three words were spoken directly to the four of us in our family and had no reference outside, which my brother and I soon discovered was full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the farther one gets
from Missoula, Montana.”
A river runs through it…from the book, that part was not in the movie.
LF, I love it when you do this! That’s a quote from Norman Maclean’s famous book, A River Runs Through It, page 11 in my edition :D. The last part of the quote was in the movie as the now adult young men were sharing a drink on the courthouse steps…
Kelly.
Another easy one…
“Nick looked down into the pool from the bridge. It was a hot day. A kingfisher flew up the stream. It was a long time since Nick had looked into a stream and seen trout. They were very satisfactory. As the shadow of the kingfisher moved up the stream, a big trout shot upstream in a long angle, only his shadow marking the angle, then lost his shadow as he came through the surface of the water, caught the sun, and then, as he went back into the stream under the surface, his shadow seemed to float down stream with the current, unresisting, to his post under the bridge where he tightened facing up into the current.
Nick’s heart tightened as the trout moved. He felt all the old feeling.”
What took you so long? S Actually I was ‘thumbing’ through A River Runs Through It, Bringing A Classic To the Screen Introduction by Robert Redford, Screenplay and Essay By Richard Friedenberg. Published by the Clark City Press (Livingston, MT) which has the screenplay and photographs of the time period and of the film. Very neat! May be listed in your library under “Film” (Quote from Page 8)
ISBN 0-944439-50-0
Two gold stars on this one S
But I’ll let someone who doesn’t have a room full of fishing books try and get this one first S
…and after a bit of a hike : “As far down the river as he could see, the trout were rising, making circles on the surface of the water, as though it were starting to rain.”
LF,
I also got it right away because I dearly love both the book and “the movie.” The theme of wishing to help another and not knowing what to do or having your help rejected is very close to a situation that I am having with one of my adult children. 8T
Love it - anyone can play, have a quote?
Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild book
Into the Wild.
I thought I knew, but I admit I cheated just to confirm it. I Googled it…
Can I still play?
A river runs through it and other stories
By Norman Maclean
opps i didnt realize it was answered
How about “It isn’t that I think fly fishing is all that important, but rather that all of Man’s other endeavors are equally unimportant.”
There should be a “sic” on there because that is from memory and I have not read it in at least 25 years.
Okay, my quote was horribly shortened from the original and lacked quality, character, and depth… Here is the real quote;
“And finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant and not nearly so much fun.”
That’s a Robert Traver (John Voelker) quote. I can’t remember which book but the one by him that I have is “Trout Madness” so I think it was from that one if memory serves correct.
I quote who with these favorite lines,
The beginner must learn to look with eyes that see.
Occurrences of apparently little importance at the moment may,
after consideration , assume proportions of great value…
A favorite of mine anyway…
Be safe
You are REALLY gonna have to stretch for this one —NO GOOGLE CHEATING!!
quote
“I do!” cried the Duke when the sun sank low.
“Get out, it’s time to fish!!”
“Come in!” cried the king, with a trout, trout, trout.
end quote
Yes on all counts…