Philece Sampler: Lester Goldberg

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  ["Going-Away Goose"] 

  Stanley Griff : Ya'ay! It's a snowstorm.

  Marci : Yes, come on snow. Keep coming down.

  Lester Goldberg : Look how big the flakes are.

  Mimi : It's a buzzard.

  Lester Goldberg : A what?

  Marci : I think she means a blizzard.

• Lester Goldberg : My family's going out of town.

  Marci : Really?

  Lester Goldberg : Yeah. I'm gonna miss out on everything. You guys will be having all this fun and I have to leave tomorrow to visit my grandparents. I'll be gone for the whole vacation.

• Lester Goldberg : I'm going to be like the super-cool Canada goose when it migrates. And I can't wait to go away, 'cause then I get to come back. Honk honk! Honk honk honk! Whoa! Ow!

• [first lines] 

  ["Time to Climb!"] 

  Mr. Goldberg : Wow! That's the third cedar waxwing we've seen today. Come on, gang.

  Lester Goldberg : Boy, Stanley. I'm sure glad your mom and dad let you come with us to the state park today.

  Stanley Griff : Yeah. It's really cool out here.

  Dennis : I'll say. It looks the way I always imagined the world looked a million years ago.

• Mr. Goldberg : The four of us are going to climb Mount Honeyhut. Isn't she a beauty?

  Lester Goldberg : You're kidding. You really want us to climb that?

  Mr. Goldberg : Right to the tippy-top. Are you game?

• Stanley Griff : These are wild yaks, right, Dennis?

  Dennis : They certainly are, Stanley.

  Lester Goldberg : Really? How can you tell?

  Dennis : One way you can tell the difference between a wild yak and a domesticated one is that the wild yak is larger and has much longer horns. It's a little taller than your mom, Lester.