- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] On Waltons Mountain, as everywhere else on earth in the later years of World War Two, there was a constant feeling of dislocation and change. Until one weekend in 1944, in the midst of the chaos and confusion, we unexpectedly found a bright, sturdy link between ourselves and the way of life we were so swiftly losing. A rich reminder of who we were, what we were, and where.
- Zadok Walton: [Speaking to Ike and Corabeth Godsey] "Some of my mama's people left me a farm up beyond Big Spruce. If I had known how little a farm it was, I wouldn't have went. I could've had them send it to me!"