The Texan (TV Series)

A Tree for Planting (1958)

Rory Calhoun: Bill Longley

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Ramirez : Fruit trees, senor. I have waited a long time for them. They are peach trees from the mission in San Francisco. You like peach trees, senor?

  Bill Longley : I like peach trees. Don't water 'em too much.

• Bill Longley : Any brandy?

  Jake, the Bartender : Some.

  Bill Longley : Peach?

  [the bartender hands Bill a dusty bottle] 

  Bill Longley : Looks like you don't get much call for this.

  Bert Gorman : Maybe folks in this town ain't got your taste for peaches. They got no taste for meddlers, either.

• Bert Gorman : No sir, I gave twenty years to make this cattle country and I aim to keep it that way.

  Bill Longley : Till somebody walks over you.

• [discussing peach trees] 

  Ramirez : It is a wonderful tree. In the spring, it makes flowers and this is good for the eyes, and in the summer it makes fruit and this is good for the stomach.

  Bill Longley : And the winter, when it's stripped and bare/

  Ramirez : It tells us we must die so we can live again.

• Sheriff Sam Bofert : I don't want any trouble.

  Bill Longley : Sam, there's no place in this entire world you won't find some kind of trouble. All right, so you got drunk outside of Nashville. You had three years of fightin'. You were tired, cold, hungry; you opened a bottle. Well, you want to know somethin'? I opened a bottle that night. That's right, I opened a bottle, too. There's only one difference between you and me, Sergeant - you were caught.