The Yearling Quotes

#1. I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

Merrill Markoe

#2. I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.

Ben Mendelsohn

#3. You know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things.
The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#4. Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#5. I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Jamie Wyeth

#6. The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others you get rid of. In that way, you have a chance to build up a good brood mare band.

Larry MacPhail

#7. She was by far the biggest yearling in the bunch, the biggest many of them could remember, a freak.

Jane Schwartz