- Nora Murphy: What kind of man takes his failures out on his son?
- William Murphy: Every man in America!
- Jim Jeffords: Polio is now poli-no. Thanks to Dr. Jonas Salk and his miracle vaccine, millions of children will never know the horrors of the iron lung.
- William Murphy: Goddamn it!
- Frank Murphy: Things started to go bad for the old man in '52. He invested all his savings in crutches and iron lungs during the big polio boom just when it went bust.
- William Murphy: I Said I don't want to hear any more of your goddamn noise!
- Teenage Frank Murphy: It's not noise, It's music! The Sweatermen are great artists!
- William Murphy: Rudy Vallée is an artist.
- Teenage Frank Murphy: I can't wait until I'm old enough to move out of here!
- William Murphy: And then you'll fly away in your magic airplane, right, Tinker Bell? Instead of staying here and helping your father save his business.
- Teenage Frank Murphy: Why would I? I hate you! And I'm glad polio got cured!
- William Murphy: You take that back!