Carousel Quotes

Carrie Pipperidge: Oh, hello Enoch... this is how fireman carry people.
Mister Snow: Where's the fire? I never thought I would see the woman I'm engaged to being carried out of the woods like a fallen deer.
Carrie Pipperidge: He wasn't carrying me out of the woods, he was carrying me into the woods!

Movie: Carousel
Dr. Selden: [at Louise's graduation ceremony] It's the custom at these graduations to pick out some old duck like me to preach at the kids. Well, I can't preach at you. I know you all too well. I've brought most of you into the world, rubbed linament on your backs, poured castor oil down your throats. I only know that now I got you this far that you'll turn out to be worth all the trouble I took with you. I can't tell you any sure way to happiness. I only know that you've gotta go out and find it for yourselves. You can't lean on the success of your parents. That's their success. And don't be held back by their failures.
Billy Bigelow: [to Louise] Listen to him. Believe him.
Dr. Selden: Makes no difference what they did or didn't do. You just stand on your own two feet. The world belongs to you as much as to the next fella, so don't give it up. And try not to be scared of people not liking you, just you try liking them. And just keep your faith, and your courage, and you'll turn out all right.

Movie: Carousel
Jigger Craigin, Picnickers: [singing] Stonecutters cut it on stone / Woodpeckers peck it on wood / There's nothin' so bad for a woman as a man who thinks he's good!

Movie: Carousel
[first lines]
Heavenly Friend: Bigelow...
Billy Bigelow: [impatiently] Well, what'd I do now?
Heavenly Friend: Nothing. I just thought you'd wanna know - there's trouble.
Billy Bigelow: Huh! Thought you said I didn't do nothin'.

Movie: Carousel
[Upon hearing that Billy will be a father]
Jigger Craigin: My mother had a baby once.

Movie: Carousel