- Marian Starett: When your name's Marian Starett you just don't go to dances. You do the cleaning and the laundry and you cook and you sew, but you do not go to dances. It's as simple as that.
- Marian Starett: [Alarmed that Shane left in pursuit of the Indian thief] Tom, it's just a dress!
- Tom Starett: Nope. No, honey, it's not just a dress any more than Shane is just a hired man.
- Tom Starett: [Looking at the rabbit Joey pulled from a trap] I'll admit he's cute and all that.
- Joey Starett: I named him.
- Tom Starett: You did?
- Joey Starett: I named him Leslie on account of us not knowing whether he's a boy or girl. That works for both.
- Tom Starett: Yeah. Well, y'know, it's not right to keep a wild thing for a pet.
- Joey Starett: But it's all right to eat him, huh?...
- Tom Starett: [Exasperated] Let him go, Joey.
- Shane: I was the one that talked all of you into coming out here. I thought it was something you wouldn't do by yourselves. I guess it was my way of sayin' thank you.
- Tom Starett: Wasn't your fault, Shane. We've all made the same mistake.
- Shane: Yeah. Only I made it bigger.