- Frankie: Hey, who do you think you are, huh?
- Garth: Just a dumb kid, Hub. Don't kill him.
- Hub: [to Garth] Right.
- [grabs Frankie by the throat]
- Hub: I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, KILLED MANY MEN and loved only one woman with a passion a FLEA like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!
- Hub: Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
- Adult Walter: [reading his uncles' will] The kid gets it all. Just plant us in the damn garden, next to the stupid lion.
- Sheik's Grandson: [looking at a large yacht in a small pond] I see they spent my grandfather's gold well.
- Adult Walter: [laughing] Well, there was this one travelling salesman...
- [Hub and Garth are getting ready to shoot at a traveling salesman]
- Walter: Why not see what he's sellin'?
- Hub: What the hell for?
- Walter: Well what's the good of having all that money if you're never gonna spend it?
- Garth: Could be the kid has a point.
- Hub: Well. We'll see what the man's sellin'. THEN we'll shoot him.
- Garth: Good plan.
- [last lines]
- Sheik's Great Grandson: So, these two men from your grandfather's stories, they really lived?
- Adult Walter: [wistfully] Yeah, they really lived...
- Walter: What happened to her?
- Garth: Looks like her heart gave out in all the excitement. She was plenty old, you know.
- Walter: Look, I think she's smiling.
- Garth: I guess she died happy.
- Hub: She died with her boots on, that's the main thing.
- Garth: Protecting her cub.
- Walter: She was a real lion, wasn't she, there at the end? A real jungle lion. A real Africa lion.
- [first lines]
- Adult Walter: [answering the phone] Hello?
- Sheriff: Walter?
- Adult Walter: Yes.
- Sheriff: This is Sheriff Brady. I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. It's about your uncles.
- Receptionist: [phone rings] Fort Worth College of Court Reporting.
- Walter: I need to find my mom. She's a student there.
- Receptionist: I'm sorry, we're closed.
- Walter: It's an emergency, please. Her name's Mae - Mae Coleman.
- Receptionist: [looks for Mae Colman in a little drawer] No, I'm sorry, there's no Mae Coleman registered here.
- Walter: [brief pause] Oh! Try Mae Carter.
- Receptionist: No, I'm sorry.
- Walter: Mabel Cartwright? Made Calloway? Donna Tompko?
- Receptionist: Young man, are you in some sort of trouble?
- Walter: She's gotta be there! She just started.
- Receptionist: Listen, our classes started back in January. No one could have possibly just started.
- [Walter finds out the truth knowing Mae was lying]
- Receptionist: Hello? Hello? Hello?
- [Walter hangs up the phone]