- Erin Walton: [as the family are settling into bed for the night] John Boy, will you take me to Miss Fanny's tomorrow?
- John-Boy Walton: Why don't you ride on Blue? He doesn't take gasoline.
- Erin Walton: What's that got to do with it?
- John-Boy Walton: Gasoline costs 15 cents a gallon, Erin.
- Ben Walton: Make her pay you John Boy. She's earning money now.
- John-Boy Walton: That's a good idea, Ben. You can pay me too, all your riding around... Ben? Ben?
- Ben Walton: I'm asleep.
- Esther Walton: Mary Ellen, things don't come easy in this life. Most everything worth knowing takes a lot of hard work and prayers. But sometimes you just got to learn the bad of things and go on. That's the way of growing, of being the best you can be. You know, if things don't cost you something, if they come too easy, they don't seem to be worth much.
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] I remember so well the carefree, designated crossroads of my life, the points where one could stop and thoughtfully consider which road to take. But there were those other particles of time in which decisions were made more quickly, and in one snap judgment irrevocable forces were set into motion. I especially recall such a time affecting my grandmother and my sister, Mary Ellen.