- Yancy Tucker: [discussing the Walton's shiftless cousins] Ain't that just like John and Livvy Walton, take in kin, house and feed 'em when times are like they are?
- Ike Godsey: Yeah.
- Yancy Tucker: I sure hope that business about breadin' cast upon the water's true.
- Ike Godsey: Yancy, there are times, sad to say, when "bread upon the waters" comes back good for nuthin' except a soggy sandwich.
- Mary Ellen Walton: Ohhh, I'm gonna be thirteen forever! It's absolutely the worst possible time in a person's whole entire life!
- Olivia Walton: You'll live through it. C'mon.
- Mary Ellen Walton: Ohhh, some days I just hate to face the world! I'd like to just sit up in my room and not have to say a word to a soul.
- Olivia Walton: That's natural at your age.
- Mary Ellen Walton: I'm gonna die on Waltons Mountain and never see anything of the world but Charlottesville!
- John Walton, Sr.: Now, sugar, I think it's time you found out. The world is flat. Twenty miles past Charlottesville, it just drops off into nothin'.
- Mary Ellen Walton: Oh, Daddy, it's not funny!
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Whenever I look back to those days when I was growing up in the Great Depression, I'm always convinced that I came from a remarkable family. It wasn't that my brothers and sisters and I were sheltered from the realities of those difficult times. It was simply that our mother and father had a way of making more of what we had and less of what we didn't have.
- The Grandfather: [Grabs John-Boy and Job by the scruff of their necks to break up their fight] You two boys better come up with somethin' special to account for the way you look.
- Cora Walton Denby: Look out Ham!
- [they barely miss collilding with Yancy Tucker's car and are forced to the side of the road]
- Yancy Tucker: [continues driving] You slug-bellied sod buster!
- Ham Denby: [exits car] You slab-headed ridge runner! I tell you there ain't nothin' on God's green earth dumber than a back-country sorgum lapper!
- [goes to front of car and angrily cranks the engine]
- Ham Denby: Set the spark, Cora! Set the spark!