- Prince: You know Ruby Ridge?
- Annie Nations: The old Burrell place, where they cut the top off the mountain.
- Prince: You wanna have a look around?
- Annie Nations: I believe I won't.
- Hector Nations: I aim to settle down.
- Annie Nations: Ya should, Hector.
- Hector Nations: Raise a family.
- Annie Nations: It ain't men raises families.
- Holly: She's lived here all her life and this ain't such a bad place to die.
- Dillard Nations: Watcha knittin', Ma?
- Annie Nations: Socks. I'm bound to have somethin' in my hands to occupy my mind.
- Hector Nations: Got enough socks around here to do a centipede.
- Holly: [taping an interview] Did you ever shoot anyone?
- Hector Nations: Well if I did, I ain't gonna tell you about it.
- Hector Nations: [after whipping Dillard for lying to him] I believe I'll go take a look at the mare now.
- Annie Nations: There's nothing wrong with her.
- Hector Nations: You said there was.
- Annie Nations: I lied, you gonna whip me too?
- Prince: All the kids with any get up and go, have got up and went just like you did. And the old ones are just hangin' on - like foxfire on rotten wood.
- Dillard Nations: I do love this place, but I can't live here.
- Annie Nations: No, ya never could once ya was grow'd.
- Annie Nations: Hector honey, the Lord forgive me, but sometimes I get a little tired of what the Bible says.