- Sheriff Ike Vallon: [offering Ravenal a cigar] See-gar?
- Gaylord Ravenal: [looking at it] What'd you call that?
- Sheriff Ike Vallon: See-gar.
- Gaylord Ravenal: Optimist!
- Pete: Where'd you all get that brooch you're wearing?
- Queenie: You mean this scrumptious piece of jewelry?
- Pete: Where'd you get it, nigger?
- Queenie: It was give to me.
- Pete: Who give it to yuh?
- Queenie: Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies.
- [aside]
- Queenie: That man - askin' me where I gets my jewelry!
- Gaylord Ravenal: [referring to Parthy] Every time she calls, you jump. Why?
- Cap'n Andy Hawks: Why?
- [confidentially]
- Cap'n Andy Hawks: That woman's got a mean disposition!
- Joe: [referring to Magnolia] She oughta ask Ol' River what he thinks. He knows all 'bout dem boys. He knows all about everything.
- [singing]
- Joe: Dere's an ol' man called the Mississippi / Dat's the ol' man dat I'd like to be / What does he care if the world's got troubles? / What does he care if the land ain't free./ Ol' Man River / Dat Ol' Man River / He mus' know sumpin' / But don't say nothin' / He jus'keeps rollin' / He keeps on rollin' along.
- Stevedores: [singing opening lines] Colored folks work on de Mississippi, / Colored folks work while de white folks play; / Loading up boats with the bales of cotton, / Gittin' no rest till de judgement day.
- [last lines]
- Cap'n Andy Hawks: [while Joe and chorus are singing the last verse of "Ol' Man River"] If you go up front, you'll find a new water barrel. It ain't much different from the old one.
- Magnolia Hawks: Look Gay, there's Kim!
- [Kim and Ravenal embrace]
- Joe: [singing with chorus] But Ol' Man River,/ He jes' keeps rollin' along!