- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] In the spring of 1938, I began to feel the burden of publishing The Blue Ridge Chronicle and finishing my novel. It would be the newspaper which would create a crisis affecting the entire family.
- John Walton, Sr.: Now that Sarah... a man could do a lot worse.
- Sheriff Ep Bridges: Oh, look, look. John, John, I--I--I know, uh... You could see, uh... I've always been the kind of a fellow that, uh... You know, you've got to kind of go by my, uh... With me, John, it's just hard to figure... Of course, in my case, it... And yet...