Katie Coates: You crazy, wonderful dog!


--Dorothy McGuire (as ) in Old Yeller

Margaret Carey: Your father loved you and wanted the best for you. It was his dream to live in the country someday. So maybe, maybe he'd be happy to know that we were all together in the yellow house in Beulah.


--Dorothy McGuire (as Margaret Carey) in Summer Magic

Sylvia Hunter: [to Helen Jorgenson] You seem to have an infinite capacity for hurt. First you try to destroy your daughter, and now our son.


--Dorothy McGuire (as Sylvia Hunter) in A Summer Place

Sylvia Hunter: We live in a glass house - we're not throwing any stones.


--Dorothy McGuire (as Sylvia Hunter) in A Summer Place

The Centurion: Truly, this man was the son of God.


--Dorothy McGuire (as The Virgin Mary) in The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Dark Hermit - Satan: A long climb, wasn't it? A long hard climb... You know, some people think the whole of life should be like that, hm... "An easy life is a sinful life". Not so, my friend... A man's life can be as easy as he wishes to make it. And it can be easy, my friend. If one knows the way to power and glory in this world.


--Dorothy McGuire (as The Virgin Mary) in The Greatest Story Ever Told

[first lines]
Katie Nolan: This'll be the last of them now, Francie.


--Dorothy McGuire (as Katie Nolan) in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

[Reflecting on their island paradise]
Mother: It's wonderful for today, but what about tomorrow?


--Dorothy McGuire (as Mother Robinson) in Swiss Family Robinson

Phil Green: I'm going to let everybody know I'm Jewish.
Kathy Lacey: Jewish? But you're not! Are you? Not that it would make any difference to me. But you said, "Let everybody know," as if you hadn't before and would now. So I just wondered. Not that it would make any difference to me. Phil, you're annoyed.
Phil Green: No, I'm just thinking.
Kathy Lacey: Well, don't look serious about it. Surely you must know where I stand.
Phil Green: Oh, I do.
Kathy Lacey: You just caught me off-guard.


--Dorothy McGuire (as Kathy Lacy) in Gentleman's Agreement

Phil Green: You aren't going to fit it at all, Kathy! You're just going to give in and let their idiotic rules stand!
Kathy Lacey: What can one person do?
Phil Green: What can they do?
Kathy Lacey: Plenty! Ostracize him!
Phil Green: And you expect me to live there now that I know all this?
Kathy Lacey: Oh, you can't change the whole world!


--Dorothy McGuire (as Kathy Lacy) in Gentleman's Agreement