We dreamed of the day that we were to leave.

6 seconds sound clip from the The High and the Mighty (1954) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:48:53 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- Um, getting back to your case, maybe it'd make you feel better if, uh, if I cried some.

- Then you'd understand what the Good Neighbor means.

- Uh, imagine yourself with a towel.

- Ready?

- The wife and I scrimped for over four years to take a trip to Hawaii. You know, palm trees, sunshine, sand, things we ain't got at home.

- We dreamed of the day that we were to leave.

- So, the wife persuades a woman to take care of our children for 10 dollars a day, which is more than I made the first five years we were married.

- We got all unpacked and were really living, but the ship don't sail. Strike or something.

- But all right, we're lucky. We get the last two tickets on an airplane, and although we can't take all our luggage, we're in the land of our dreams.

- At the little hotel that fits our budget, there's a mix-up in the reservations.

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