- Miss Ellie Ewing: [as Bobby and Ray talk business] How do you like that cowboy you married now, Donna? He's got the makings of a real businessman.
- Donna Culver Krebbs: [looking at Ray] I liked him fine when he was running the ranch.
- Ray Krebbs: Nothing wrong with a man trying to improve his lot.
- Miss Ellie Ewing: [as J.R. looks stricken after phone call] J.R., what is it? What's wrong?
- J.R. Ewing: It's Daddy. He's real upset.
- Miss Ellie Ewing: Well, what about?
- J.R. Ewing: About Sue Ellen... having John Ross. He told me in no uncertain terms, no matter what, he wants that boy back on Southfork.
- J.R. Ewing: Yeah, it's all this family needs, another half breed!
- Ray Krebbs: J.R.!
- [rises in anger, but Donna holds him back]
- Ray Krebbs: I just might see if that hat of yours fits into your mouth!
- Bobby Ewing: What I don't understand is how there can be a shortage of babies.
- Ms. Bruce: With the new birth control methods, abortions, and the surprisingly large number of unwed mothers who choose to keep their children, well, we have more people who want to adopt than we have children.
- Miss Ellie Ewing: My husband usually gets what he wants.
- Clayton Farlow: You're not in Ewing country now.
- Cliff Barnes: That's one of the worst things about being a bachelor is the carryout food. I swear I could sail to China on the cartons I've carried through that door.
- J.R. Ewing: Harry, I didn't expect to see you back this soon.
- Det. Harry McSween: No reason for me to stay in San Angelo.
- J.R. Ewing: What does that mean?
- Det. Harry McSween: I couldn't do you any good. Farlows have too much power down there. No one wants to go up against them. They run San Remo County like the Ewings do Braddock.
- Det. Harry McSween: J.R., it would take an army to get your son off the Southern Cross.
- J.R. Ewing: Maybe not an army. Maybe a Trojan Horse.
- Pamela Barnes Ewing: You know what I think? I think I made a mistake when I took John Ross to Sue Ellen. Without her, there wouldn't be anybody to take care of him. J.R. doesn't care about him. I know he's not mine, but it could almost be the same. I'd love him, and I'd take care of him. Oh, Mama, I want a baby so badly.
- Afton Cooper: [tells Mitch how to get money] It's easy. You just have to take it from the ones that have got it.