Driving Miss Daisy was to many people a lighthearted film that played out the effect of racism in the south against both black and Jewish folk in a time when the country was going through an upheaval of sorts as to its own identity. Miss Daisy and Hoke were the odd couple of the time that didn’t seem like they’d ever come to terms with one another. While Hoke did his best to keep his chin up Miss Daisy did her best to make sure that everyone around her knew their place while at the same time attempting to make them realize that she was a decent person that just wanted life to make sense. At the end of the movie things finally did seem to make sense considering that she and Hoke became best friends and that Hoke, throughout all the hardships, was the one guy that would never leave her, aside from her son.
It was a touching movie that managed to reach a lot of people.
10. I had the air-conditioning checked. I don’t know what for. You never allow me to turn it on.
Miss Daisy was not a pleasant woman to begin with and made Hoke’s life kind of miserable when he first started driving her around.
9. I taught some of the stupidest children God ever put on the face of this earth and all of them could read well enough to find a name on a tombstone.
She might not have been a racist but Lord Almighty she was definitely a hard woman to get to like since everything had to be the way she wanted it to be or heaven help anyone that was around her.
8. You should have a job on the radio announcing the time.
Miss Daisy’s son was very well aware of how hard a person his mother was to get along with but he tended to give back as much as he took from her.
7. If her grandfather, Old Man Freitag, could see this… what is it you always say?… he’d jump up out of his grave and snatch her bald-headed!
Ever notice how some of the old sayings didn’t make a lot of sense until they were explained?
6. I wouldn’t be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself.
If someone made an oath like this now people would likely laugh, but back then it was treated as rather serious.
5. Mama, cars don’t behave. They are behaved upon. Fact is, you demolished that Chrysler all by yourself.
It’s true, we tend to put the blame on inanimate objects at times when things don’t seem to be going alright.
4. OK. I am. I’m makin’ it all up. Look out there in the driveway! Every insurance company in America is out there, waving their fountain pen, trying to get you to sign up!
Her son had had just about enough of her arguing at one point and was prone to just letting her know what he thought in his most sarcastic manner.
3. Sometimes I think you ain’t got the sense God gave a lemon!
Apparently this means something but you’d have to look it up to find out.
2. Oh, no, she’s all there. Too-much-there is the problem!
Just because a person is old and feeble doesn’t mean they’re feeble-MINDED.
1. Well, now, you took it with me, Miss Daisy, and you got the map.
If you’re the navigator and give wrong directions don’t blame the driver for getting you lost.
That must have been quite the experience, an early day personal Uber.
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