“I know of only one serious thing on this earth, the growing of grapes.”

“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

“They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?”

“Because there's no way on earth she's going to make it through college unless she grows some serious ovaries and turns this train wreck around”