Richard Eyer: David Colby

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : What were you doing out there, Davey? Where're your folks?

  David Colby : It was Indians.

  Gil Favor : Indians?

  David Colby : They killed my father and my grandfather and they carried off my mother.

  Rowdy Yates : How'd you get away?

  David Colby : I was hiding in the barn.

• David Colby : Mr Favor, I bin thinking. On a trail drive a man has to pull his own weight.

  Gil Favor : That's right, Davy.

  David Colby : Well, maybe you could find something for me to do that'd be useful to you.

  Gil Favor : I'll sure find something.

  Wishbone : After all the sufferings he's been through, to be thinking of somebody else, well, that's something. A fine lad, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : And it might be, he's got a fine imagination.

• Gil Favor : You know what this is?

  David Colby : No, sir.

  Gil Favor : It's a tree. This isn't a hickory branch but it will do.

  David Colby : You want to wallop me, Mr Favor?

  Gil Favor : I want the truth, Davy.

• Gray : What are you after, Mister?

  David Colby : This small boy. Sounds kinda crazy?

  David Colby : That's him, Mr Gray.

  Gray : Yeah, yeah, sounds kinda crazy.

  Pete Nolan : Wait a minute. I don't know what Davy's told you, but I kinda can figure it out.

  Gray : You're making out you didn't kill his family?

• David Colby : Ma, Ma, I'm sorry I made you worry.

  Jennie Colby : Why should I worry about you? I never saw you before in my life.

  Pete Nolan : I understand, Ma'am. Sorry to have bothered you.

  David Colby : BUT MA!

  Jennie Colby : Would you please take him away.

  [And Pete does, taking the boy by the scruff of the neck, and reaching for a branch to use as a birch] 

• Woman : DAVY! You forgot your frog.

  David Colby : You keep him, Ma'am. I don't deserve anything as nice as that.

• Pete Nolan : You, ah, run away from home?

  David Colby : Asking questions of strangers 'round here, Mister, will just get you into trouble.