- Ned: Seems all this country would've chewed you people up and spit you back where you came from by now. Beats me how you get by.
- Marian Starett: We get by with prayers, luck, and good friends like you.
- Tom Starett: I never knew you loved Shane that much.
- Marian Starett: I don't. I couldn't. Not ever. He can't take the place of Joe. Not a man who can't talk to you. Can't tell you how he feels.
- Boon Spicer: So you're Shane? Somehow I thought you'd be different. A little older maybe.
- Shane: I got as old as I could in the time I had.
- J.D. Spicer: Joey and some old cowboy got themselves drunk on bad liquor. They was playing poker and Joey drew the fifth ace.
- Shane: Dangerous card.
- Shane: To save your family honor I'm supposed to run?
- J.D. Spicer: That's your choice, Shane. Y'see, Uncle Josh loved that boy. He raised us like we was his own. Now, it comes to your life for his peace of mind, I'll leave you dead on this floor.
- Shane: I believe you would.
- [last lines]
- Tom Starett: The days of our years are threescore and ten. And if by reason of their strength they are fourscore years, yet is there strength, labor, and sorrow.
- Shane: For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
- Rufe Ryker: Amen.