- Meg Pryor: I don't want to be one of those people that nothing special ever happens to.
- Roxanne Bojarski: You are special.
- Meg Pryor: How?
- Roxanne Bojarski: Well... you're super nice!
- Meg Pryor: Nice? That's it? Come on, if I were to die tomorrow what would anyone say?
- Patty Pryor: [listening outside the door] Good riddance!
- Meg Pryor: Brat!
- Patty Pryor: I wasn't listening!
- Jimmy Riley: Hi, I'm Jimmy Riley. Would you like to dance?
- Meg Pryor: I would! I'm Meg. Meg Pryor. I go to East Catholic.
- Jimmy Riley: This isn't roll call. Just dance with me, Meg Pryor from East Catholic.
- Beth Mason: Mom says, if Heaven's where you go if you're good while you're on Earth, then Monaco is where you go if you're good while you're in Heaven.
- JJ Pryor: Kennedy says it's time for new dreams, and new frontiers, not just the ones of our fathers.
- Jack Pryor: President Kennedy, who both went to college...
- JJ Pryor: I know.
- Jack Pryor: And loves football.
- JJ Pryor: I know!
- Jack Pryor: And you are going to...
- JJ Pryor: No, I'm not!
- Jack Pryor: Will you let me finish a damn sentence? JJ, you have a chance to be something great. A tailback, an astronaut, or whatever the hell, but great! Now I know going to Notre Dame won't guarantee you anything, but it'll give you the best chance anyone could ask for. And I'm not going to stand by and let you piss away that chance. I just won't.
- JJ Pryor: Maybe it's not up to you.