“What right do you have to yell at me? You are never home when I need to talk to you, and you don’t even know me.” --Jenna

“This is a meeting only for stockholders. I appreciate your care for my mother but I think I can handle her myself.” ---Elden

“I’ve been on the road with Mrs. Gladstone this summer…and I can tell you those economy brands aren’t doing this company one bit of good. I understand we need profits…but you don’t have to sacrifice quality with that. The people Harry Bender sold shoes to came back to him over and over again…because they trusted him to do the right thing by them…So I’m taking my fifty shares of stock and I am voting that Mrs. Gladstone stay with this company somehow.”---Jenna

“If you set your mind and heart toward a healthy way of living and thinking, you’ll find a way to climb out of the biggest pit life throws your way.”--Harry Bender

“Jenna, you have very attractive eyes. Some bangs would really frame your nice eyes.” ---Alice

“Even though I had only known Henry for two weeks, I loved him like he was my father,” --Harry Bender



"The best thing you can do for your dad is love him and pray for him and don’t let him step on you or let his disease infect you any more than it has…"---Harry Bender

“I took your drinking on my shoulders, Dad! But I can’t keep it there anymore. I’ve changed. I love you, but I can’t be with you unless you change because seeing you so out of control, seeing you waste your life is too hard for me. You need help, Dad! You’re an alcoholic. There’s help everywhere for what you’ve got. I need a sober father and Faith does too.”--Jenna

“Do you know what built Gladstone’s Shoes? An unmovable insistence on quality and fair pricing. An insistence on the finest, most shoe educated sales force in the business. It’s a sad day, Jenna, when profits and greed alone influence quality. It’s an even sadder day when honor in business is close to becoming a thing of the past.”--Madeline Gladstone