The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV Series)

Jonathan Tells It Like It Was (1969)

Harlen Carraher: Jonathan Muir

Quotes 

• Jonathan Muir : [at home, trying to follow family advice while reading his essay aloud]  I can't.

  Carolyn Muir : Can't what?

  Jonathan Muir : Hold my head up, relax, smile, use my hands AND talk.

• Rutledge Adams : Stop. Is this the composition that won first place?

  Jonathan Muir : I changed it a little just to make it truer.

• Jonathan Muir : You know, when I was young I thought an encyclopedia was something you could ride.

• Jonathan Muir : Do you like my new composition, Mom?

  Carolyn Muir : Uh, yes, I do Jonathan.

  Jonathan Muir : Then why don't other people like it.

  Carolyn Muir : Well, some people like to picture the great men of history as being perfect, and when you showed that John Adams wasn't exactly perfect, I guess they got upset.

  Jonathan Muir : But nobody let me get to the good part, the part where I tell everybody when Franklin and Adams worked together for the good of our country. They didn't like each other, but they put our country first.