- Betty MacDonald: They don't want us here - The wind and the mountains and the rain - They're fighting us all the time. We've got to get out of this place before it's too late!
- Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: When I was first married, I was as neat as the next woman. Tried to keep my house and kids clean, but Pa's an awful old lazy so-and-so. It was fight, fight, fight all the time. So finally give it up. I says, I can't make Pa change and be neat, so I'll have to change and be dirty. Been peace in this house ever since.
- Betty MacDonald: I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
- Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: Take another one of them cookies, why don't ya? Plenty where they come from. I'll get you some to take home.
- Betty MacDonald: They're wonderful. How do you make them?
- Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: Just a drop of this and a drop of that, mix it together and shove it in the oven.
- Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: Last money I saved up, Pa put it in a couple of minks he was goin' to breed to make us a fortune. They up and died before they got around to breedin'.
- Frank 'Pa' Kettle: Got the water tank up. Will have running water any minute now.
- Betty MacDonald: Oh, thanks. Isn't that a relief?
- Phoebe 'Ma' Kettle: Never seen the sense of running water in my house m'self. 'Drather get mine straight out of the ground where the good lord put it.
- Sheriff: You got yourselves pretty well burned out last night. Livestock, buildings, crops, most everything. Now, there's hardly one of us who hasn't got more than he can use at this time. So we've gotten together to give you whatever might be necessary to get you started again. Now, I don't want you young people to think that we've come here with charity. Nothing of the sort. You took a bad beating last night, there's no denying that, but you're not the first and you won't be the last. We know that you're not foolish enough to be feeling sorry for yourselves this morning. We've all had our share of troubles, everybody that you see gathered here today. If it wasn't fire, it was something else. Sickness, death, bad crops, one thing or another. But that's the Lord's way. I guess He knows what He's doing.
- Mr. Henty: I judge my eggs by the people that produce them. Like chicken, like master, I always say.