- Emily 'Miss Emily' Baldwin: [while reminiscing of former beau, Ashley Longworth] He had such lovely cheekbones. Do you remember Ashley Longworth's cheekbones, Mamie?
- Mamie 'Miss Mamie' Baldwin: No. I don't remember Ashley's cheekbones, sister. He had nice eyes, though. One was green, the other was blue.
- Emily 'Miss Emily' Baldwin: Think of it. If I'd married Ashley, this place would be overrun with a whole passle of children with blue-green eyes.
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Waltons Mountain had been in our family for generations, a silent witness to all the bright and wonderful days I knew as a boy. If mountains remember events then, surely, it must treasure, as I do, the memory of that day during the Depression when my sister, Mary Ellen, got into a fight after school and the events that followed.
- Narrator: When we were living through them, we called them bad times and thought that we were poor. Only after we had all grown up were we to realize what good times they had been and how very rich we were.
- John Walton, Sr.: John-Boy, do you know anybody selling whiskey from my truck?
- John-Boy Walton: Daddy, we were in the theater the whole time, all of us, every one of us, except for Homer Lee!
- Sheriff Ep Bridges: Cousin Homer Lee Baldwin from Buckingham County?
- John-Boy Walton: Yes sir, he's visiting the ladies.
- Sheriff Ep Bridges: Heh-HO!
- The Grandfather: [Homer attempts to start his car, but it won't go] Sounds to me like your battery's dead.
- Emily 'Miss Emily' Baldwin: Are you sure we got gasoline?
- Mamie 'Miss Mamie' Baldwin: If not, we can use some of the Recipe.
- [they laugh; Homer tries again]
- The Grandfather: Oh no, I'm afraid you ladies aren't going anywhere tonight. Your battery's dead as a doornail.
- Mamie 'Miss Mamie' Baldwin: The Recipe would work in that too.
