- Young Steve Saint: If the Waodani attack, will you defend yourself? Will you use your guns?
- Nate Saint: Son, we can't shoot the Waodani. They're not ready for heaven... we are.
- [last lines]
- Steve Saint: It's true my dad and his four friends were not given the privilege of watching their children and grandchildren grow up. But Mincayani is a grandfather. It's the first time in Waodani history they've ever had so many grandfathers. He's not only a grandfather to his own children, he's a grandfather to mine. My dad would have liked that. Through the years people could always identify with our loss. But they could never imagine the way we would experience gain.
- [first lines]
- Steve Saint: Some people say we live in a world of irreconcilable differences. Others say that true peace, lasting peace, can't be obtained because we haven't found a way yet to change the human heart.
- Nate Saint: Do you know how far away the sun is?
- Young Steve Saint: 93 million miles.
- Nate Saint: Do you know that that's just a fraction of how much I love you?
- Waodani Chaperone: [In Waodani] I think you are a tall woman. With a voice like a beautiful canary.
- Roger Youderian: [Stares blankly at her]
- Nate Saint: She just proposed to you, Roger.