- Orin Nordholm Jr.: [addressing the banker, who's turned him down for an important business loan] If I only had a heart like yours, Patton...
- Mr. Patten: Hmm?
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: I'd use it to freeze meat with.
- Buffalo Bill Cody: You heard right, mister. They're drownin' in beef down in Texas. I've seen a million head roamin' about wild - yours for the takin'.
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: Well, why don't they drive 'em up north, and sell 'em?
- Buffalo Bill Cody: 'Cause they got better sense, that's why.
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: Well, they could drive 'em up over the Texas Trail, or the Chisholm Trail, on through to the new railroad at Sioux City or Abilene.
- Buffalo Bill Cody: Ha ha, it ain't quite that easy, son. I've been up and down that trail, and there's 2,000 miles of bad country. It's all a man can do to get through himself, without draggin' a herd of steers after him, ha ha.
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: Still, a man could make himself a heap of money if he could do it...
- Buffalo Bill Cody: Now, mind you, I ain't sayin' it can't be done. But drivin' steers ain't like drivin' cows to pasture. Texas longhorns are ornery critters!
- Orin Nordholm Sr.: Well, only a fool'd try it.
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: Can't never tell. That's what you said folks called you when you left for Dakota 20 years ago.
- Orin Nordholm Sr.: Hmm, maybe they did, son, but that was different.
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: Not to my way of thinkin'.
- Anna Nordholm: Yes, that was different, Orin. We come out here to get land, and build a home, for us. For you and your children after you where, God willing, we could all live... with no selfish seekin' after money.
- Buffalo Bill Cody: Ha ha, your ma's got you there, son!
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: [Concerned about his granddaughter's upcoming marriage to a British baronet] You've been browbeaten by your wife into accepting a fool and his title! Richard, if the name Nordholm still means something to you, don't do it.
- Jennifer Clinton Nordholm: Mr. Nordholm, if you have honored us with a visit, for the purpose of interfering with our affairs, I should thank you not to...
- Richard Nordholm: [cutting her off] Jennifer, please!
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: Richard, I've made it possible for you to do everything, and be everything your mother wanted. I've paid for all your mistakes. We've made a mess of our own lives. Must we drag the children down with us?
- Jennifer Clinton Nordholm: I should think, Mr. Nordholm, having driven your own wife insane, you would stop meddling in affairs you know nothing about!
- Orin Nordholm Jr.: [Looking pained, saying nothing, turns and slowly walks out the door]