- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] So much of what we learned in those early years was rooted in that small schoolhouse on Waltons Mountain. I remember it warmly, and well, along with our teacher, Miss Rosemary Hunter. And long after I left her school, Miss Hunter figured prominently in a special time of learning for my mother, and for me. A time when each of us searched for that most elusive of persons, one's own self.
- Elizabeth Walton: Religion is the opium of the masses.
- Esther Walton: I smite thee, child of Satan!
- [rushes Elizabeth with a meat cleaver, is held back by family members]