- Sabetha: All right, mister, you found him, but you ain't goin' to take him. You manhunters make the rules - now you die by 'em!
- Dave Blassingame: Lady, I ain't man-trackin'.
- Sabetha: Whatcha got that dog for?
- Dave Blassingame: That dog couldn't catch a cold.
- Bick: I caught a couple of slugs in my appetite - and I ain't quite as sound as I used to be when we was bustin' broncs up in Montana.
- Suzy: When it comes right down to it, Dave, Sabetha was right. I'm not what folks call "a nice girl." Wouldn't like it if I was. Bein' no good beats plowin'. It's warm and, um, you got company.
- Suzy: When you grew up, didn't you want to amount to somethin'?
- Dave Blassingame: Oh that, well, I've thought along those lines some and-and it appears I'm kind of a stranger to ambition.
- Sabetha: It's my son and you ain't takin' him. You can't prop him up in a window for folks to gawk at like a two-headed calf!
- Rigdon: He don't belong to you any more. He belongs to the law now.
- Dave Blassingame: You ain't the law. You're a meat-hookin' jaybirder.