Best Quotations

1.  Quote: " More katsup, more katsup, more katsup, more katsup!"
 Scene: A French waiter walking away in disgust after Declan asked for more katsup at a seaside restaurant in southern France.
Dramatis personnae - Declan, Cal, Ace, Janet and Emma and cranky French waiter

2. Quote - Practice sentences in French - " I road a loaf of bread to the performance. I lived in Paris until the children were 40 years old."What I meant to say: " I took a bus to the performance. I lived in Paris until the children were 4 years old"
Scene: A cafe in Avignon getting a french tutoring session.
Dramatis personnae - Connan and Elodie and chuckling French lady overhearing our conversation.

3. Quote: "You are being a jerk. Do you know what a jerk is? J-E-R-K A jerk!"
Scene: Seaside arcade in southern France after tokens were placed in the wrong machine and the cranky French carney wouldn't return the money.
Lead Dramatis personnae - Ace and Crank French Carney.  Supporting players - Declan, Cal, Emma and Janet.

4. Quote: "The two of us, this town is not so big."
Scene: Somewhere in Sicily
Dramatis personnae - Unidentified Sicilian man after seeing Declan's hat and calling it a cowboy hat, Declan, Blake.


5. Quote: "Mommy, I think you need a extra nerve"
Scene:  A particulary tense time in Berlin
Dramatis personnae: Declan, Connan

6.  Quote: "Mommy, the French are disgusting."
Scene: Paris
Dramatis Personnae: Declan after learning that the French eat cow tongue, snails and occasionally, horse.

7. Quote: "TWO! TWO! TWO!" ""Kilograms?' "Yes, TWO! TWO! TWO!""Um, Cal? 2 Kilograms is about 4.5 lbs."
Scene:  In front of a churros stand in Seville
Dramatis Personnae:  Cal jumping up and down trying to get the vendor to give him 4.5 lbs of churros behind his mother's back.

8. Quote: "Cal, in this movie everything you want to blow up, will blow up."  "Can Decky blow up?"
Scene:  Watching INDEPENDENCE DAY on the computer for the first time.
Dramatis Personnae: Cal, Declan, Blake and Connan

9. Quote: "So when do we get to see Gandolf?"
Scene: living in the Trulli huts in Puglia, Italy.
Dramatis Personnae: Declan

10. Quote: "Mom, this tastes like hay!"
Scene: Eating a plate of green pasta at an agriturismo inn in Italy
Dramatis Personnae:  Cal

11. Quote: "Just EAT IT!"
Scene: Regarding a mayonnaise soaked hamburger at a restaurant in Little Munster, Germany.
Dramatis Personnae: Connan, Declan

12. Quote: "That's a good business plan, make your customers cry!"
Scene:  Ryan Air boarding line. Seville to Marseilles flight. Crying customer in front of us has to dump her running shoes into the trash can in order for her luggage to make the size specifications.
Dramatis Personnae:  Blake

13.Quote: "Bananas!"
Scene:  Lighting fast answer to the car ride game question, " What would you want to eat if you could only have one food for the rest of your life?"
Dramatis Personnae: Declan

14. Quote: "I'd kill a snitch.  I'm not saying I have...but I would."  and "Son of a gun it's a Starbucks!  Let's go have a cup of Joe."
Scene: Replays of Peyton Manning's SNL sketch and Lewis Black's "End of the Universe" comedy routine.
Dramatis Personnae: Cal

15. Quote: "It was a GREAT BIG PORKER!"
Scene: a dramatic reading of "Captain Pugwash and Pigwig" for Cal's bedtime story
Dramatis Personnae: Declan

16. Quote: "Just two please." "Uhmmm, no"
Scene: 47 Park in London turndown service when the maid brings chocolate to place on the pillow.
Dramatis Personnae: Eastern European maid who gives the kids fistfulls of chocolate, Cal, Declan and Connan.

17. Quote: "Chicken!  Gobble, gobble, gobble."  "Um Mom?  That's a turkey."
Scene:  Car ride from Granada to Sevilla when Connan is trying to get shame Declan into playing Family Feud on his itouch.
Dramatis Personnae: Connan and Dec.

18. Quote: "Blue cheese? No one puts blue cheese on a bagel!"
Scene : Car ride in Sicily playing a game of Family Feud and the topic is what do people put on top of bagels.
Dramatis Personnae: Connan

19. Quote: " I have a monkey on my head!"
Scene:  Rock of Gibraltar
Dramatis Personnae: Declan

20. Quote:   Messi!!!! Messi!!!"
Scene: The streets of Seville
Dramatis Personnae: 31 anonymous people