- Jim Green: Have a great day!
- Cindy Green: That's too much pressure...
- Jim Green: Have the day you have!
- Uncle Bub: Did you know that I invented the peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
- Timothy Green: Did you know that I'm a big fan of your work?
- Timothy Green: Dear Mom and Dad... about my leaves, I gave them all away... it's what you do with gifts. I gave one to Aunt Brenda so now she can rock. I wanted Uncle Bub to have one... and Miss Crudstaff. Coach Cal got one... he said it was my best kick ever. I gave one to Reggie because he really like one. I left one for Grandpa Jim where I know he'll find it and Joni... she got two... and for you guys... here's what I know. If you came to me and said, "There are two people in the world who want you more than anything, they'll do their best... they'll make some mistakes and you'll only get them for a short time, but they will love you more than you can ever imagine, well, when that's true"... I'd say, "so much is possible"
- [tries to cut the leaves off Timothy's legs but the prune shears breaks]
- Reggie: This isn't gonna work is it
- Timothy Green: No
- Cindy Green: I had made a mistake.
- Jim Green: We made lots of mistakes.
- Cindy Green: Yeah, we made mistakes trying to fix our mistakes.
- Jim Green: Isn't that how you know you're a parent?
- [Cindy laughs]
- Evette Onat: You seem to forget what the object is here. You need to persuade us. Tell me, what would you do differently.
- Cindy Green: We'd make better mistakes? Different.New.
- Jim Green: [Explains] Not the same. New mistakes.
- Cindy Green: That's... That's what we'd do.
- Cindy Green: We didn't know what he was doing with the girl. It was fine if he wanted to have a secret, as long as he shared it with us.
- Brenda Best: You know what I feel really good about? Bart and I are just grateful that our kids' school has a gifted and talented program.
- Cindy Green: Did you know Timothy is gifted?
- Brenda Best: How so?
- Cindy Green: Well... He always finds the bright side. He never gives up and he has a good heart.
- Brenda Best: That will get you into college.
- Ms. Bernice Crudstaff: If this boy can have a leaf on his ankle, then we can make a pencil out of leaves.
- Jim Green: [retelling their Halloween courtship story] I had seen a lot of pencils, but I had never seen one quite like your mom. Breathtaking. But I was too scared to even talk to her, so I wrote her a note. Yeah...
- Timothy Green: What did it say?
- Cindy Green: It said, "It feels to me that with a pencil anything is possible."
- Timothy Green: That is so true.
- Coach Cal: [gruffly about Timothy's awful soccer performance] Why are you smiling?
- Timothy Green: [huge smile] I can only get better!
- Jim Green: I am not the only bad parent in this house!
- Cindy Green: Look, it's not a competition to see who can be the worst parent!
- Jim Green: No, I am saying we're both terrible at this! We are! We don't know anything!
- Cindy Green: [to Jim frantically about Timothy's friendship with Joni] This is too soon. He's too young. You told him to run the other way when he saw her, and he... He's not running!