- Steve Hill: [to Brother Thaddeus, who is lending a hand at a construction site] You know, brother? All that stuff about Rome not being build in a day? I think, if you'd have been there they'd have made it.
- Willie 'Brother Thaddeus' Kane: Today we're gonna study nouns and verbs and all kinds of fancy things. Good for the inside of your heads. Praise glory.
- Andrew: Father Blaise was teaching us about gerunds and gerundums.
- Willie 'Brother Thaddeus' Kane: Huh?
- Andrew: Gerunds and gerundums, Brother.
- Willie 'Brother Thaddeus' Kane: [confused] Oh, geruns and gerundahs. Well, smart man, that Father Blaise.
- Sister St. Luke: Well yes, Felix, Samson was a figure of history. And according to the Old Testament account, a man of tremendous strength and moral resolution.
- Felix: Like Brother Thaddeus?
- Sister St. Luke: [seeing Brother Thaddeus carrying a lumber board, 12 inches by 12 inches, and 12 feet long, weighing at least 400 pounds] Yes, Felix, it would be hard to think of a more apt example. Especially if Brother Thaddeus were ever to get that angry.