- The Grandfather: Goodnight Esther.
- 'Grandma' Esther Walton: Goodnight Zeb.
- The Grandfather: Your feet are cold!
- Olivia Walton: [after the power company man has shut off the Waltons' electricity] I've been so fearful that the day would finally come when we couldn't pay our bills.
- 'Grandma' Esther Walton: You fear a thing enough, you're askin' fer it.
- The Grandfather: I didn't recognize the tune, Esther.
- Esther Walton: I always saved it for you, Zeb.
- The Grandfather: So you did!
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Whenever I think back on Waltons Mountain and about my family, I remember mostly the feeling of love and a happiness we all shared. But, though the mountain never changed, there were times, rare times, when those we thought the closest found themselves at odds. It happens in all families, I suppose, and it happened one day in ours.
- Narrator: [as John Boy writing in his journal after the barn dance] We are all dancers. In each of us there is a need to move to the beat of music, to circle, to tempt, to embrace, and finally to move together in pairs. And when all else of 1934 is forgotten, I will still treasure this house, this year, and this night.
- The Grandfather: Candles, I forgot about to buy them
- 'Grandma' Esther Walton: You'd rather be gallivanting with two single ladies, Baldwiins, instead of your own family
- The Grandfather: Esther, you really don't mean that.
- 'Grandma' Esther Walton: You smell like a June bride.