- Have you come to pray to the gods?
- If I had, I wouldn't have chosen a fallen one. Only a statue.
12 seconds sound clip from the Jason and the Argonauts (1963) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:14:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Father, why do you let him live?
- If I destroy him, I destroy myself.
- While he is searching for the Golden Fleece, he is at the ends of the earth and I am safe.
- Have you come to pray to the gods?
- If I had, I wouldn't have chosen a fallen one. Only a statue.
- Sometimes the gods argue amongst themselves. Then great winds blow and temples fall.
- Hermes.
- Yes?
- No, I said the statue was the god Hermes.
- Hermes.
- Ah, yes. A bringer of dreams and a prowler of the night.
- Jason.
- No man can tell you how to find the fleece.
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