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- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] Few strangers ever came to Waltons Mountain. We got our news of the outside world from the radio or from an occasional copy of a magazine. But I remember when I was about seventeen, four visitors arrived and gave me my first unexpected glimpse of the other world beyond our mountain.
- Olivia Walton: I will not have those people inside this house.
- John Walton, Sr.: Liv, can't judge people, where they come from or what they wear, what they do. We never turned anyone away from this door and we're not gonna start now.
- Homer Ferguson: How many times have I got to tell you to button up your uniform? This is the railroad you're working for, not some socialist New Deal outfit.
- Olivia Walton: I don't think I'll ever have the strength to give him up.
- John Walton, Sr.: Honey, you had the strength to raise him. You'll have the strength to let him go.