- Mal Thorner: You ain't for women votin', are ya?
- Rowdy Yates: I never thought about that.
- Wishbone: Why, it ever come to that, it'd be ruination.
- Belle Connelly: Well, most of the time I tend bar. But when I cook for a man, not only don't he starve but he gets some meat on his bones.
- Wishbone: I'll put some meat on your bones.
- [to Ian Cabot, English drover]
- Simon Blake: I don't want to be obligated.
- Rowdy Yates: You're not. I've done the same thing for any woman who's been pushed around.
- Simon Blake: Well then, you've been kept pretty busy, Mr Yates, 'cos women have been pushed around ever since time began.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, I haven't been around that long.
- Rowdy Yates: I'm no more stubborn than the next man. You're always telling everybody what you want them to do. You might try asking for a change.
- Cassie Webster: Tell me, did you ever know that a child's heart could break over a little ragdoll? Or that a young girl could cry all through the night just because she didn't have a pink ribbon to wear in her hair? Or that a woman could live in the same house with a man for six years, six long years and still be lonely?
- Rowdy Yates: You know, I had a kinda step-mother once. She never beat me or anything like that. She never said two decent words to me in the whole time we were around each other. Well, she finally took fever and passed away. I tried to feel sad about it but it was impossible. So I just ended up feeling.
- Cassie Webster: Relieved?
- Rowdy Yates: Yeah. I guess that's it.
- Jim Quince: I'll tell you about this town of Broken Bluff. Well, the upper part is strictly a Sunday go to meeting outfit. And the lower part is made up of sawmill hands and miners. Believe me, both hands they've got as much use for a drover as a long tail cat has for a rocking chair.
- Rowdy Yates: When people get their feeling going, they don't often think straight.
- Cassie Webster: I know.
- [She stretches up for a kiss]
- Rowdy Yates: Wow, how about that!
- Cassie Webster: You complaining?
- Rowdy Yates: No, no. It just wasn't long enough, that's all.