How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from No Country for Old Men.
Quote #7
"They just sat there on their horses watching him die."
As Ellis shows us, there will always be people who have no sympathy or concern for others, people who'd as soon kill you as flip a coin. All you can do is try to contain these people as best you can.
Quote #8
"What you got ain't nothing new. This country is hard on people. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity."
Ellis gives Ed Tom some real talk when he reminds him that there has always been senseless violence and there always will be. The whole world isn't waiting on Ed Tom to find some deeper meaning in life, and it sure hasn't saved all its violence for his lifetime. It was turning out violent criminals before he was born, and it's going to keep turning them out once he's dead.
Quote #9
"You know, if you'd have told me 20 years ago I'd see children walking the streets of our Texas towns with green hair, bones in their noses, I just flat-out wouldn't have believed you."
Ed Tom's friend from the El Paso police force regrets how far Texas has fallen in the past 20 years. He's a conservative man who thinks that dyed hair in children is the first step toward total anarchy. It's kind of hard to take the guy seriously on this point, since nose-bones might be a little cringe-inducing, but they're hardly a sign of the end times.