The Cowboys (1972) Quotes with Sound Clips

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The best quotes from The Cowboys (1972), as voted by the site's visitors, featuring short sound bites.

Actors: John Wayne (Wil Andersen), Roscoe Lee Browne (Jebediah Nightlinger), Bruce Dern (Asa Watts)

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1 This may seem a lonesome place to leave him. But he's not alone. Because many of his kind rest here with him.

Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne)

2 Death can come for you anyplace, anytime. It's never welcome, but if you've done all you can do and it's your best... in a way, I guess, you're ready for him.

— Wil Andersen (John Wayne)

3 Yeah, I'm 30 years older than you are. Had my back broke once and my hip twice. And on my worst day I could beat the hell out of you.

— Wil Andersen (John Wayne)

4 I think these kids are rushin' it a little. -They're in a hurry to grow up. -Well, they won't get it out of a bottle. -They'll know that in the morning.

Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne), Wil Andersen (John Wayne)

5 If that's that ol' Tennessee sour mash, put a little in there. Good for my rheumatism.

— Wil Andersen (John Wayne)

6 They came to a castle and he battered down the doors with the trunk of an oak tree and killed everybody in it! Just so they could rest the night.

Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne)

7 This was a good boy. He'd have been a good man. Didn't get his chance.

— Wil Andersen (John Wayne)

8 Well, he got drunk on Sunday and married on Monday. I came in his stead.

Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne)

9 When did you take your first drink? -It was on the occasion of my first broken heart. And my last.

Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne)

10 That comes with old age. -Yeah, miserable old age. I hate it. -I'm not far behind you and I don't like it, either.

Jebediah Nightlinger (Roscoe Lee Browne), Wil Andersen (John Wayne)

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