The Wonder Years (TV Series)

Independence Day (1993)

Daniel Stern: Kevin Arnold - The Narrator

Quotes 

• Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : The next day, Winnie and I came home; back to where we'd started. It was the fourth of July in that little suburban town. Somehow, though, things were different. Our past was here, but our future was somewhere else; and we both knew, sooner or later, we had to go. It was the last July I ever spent in that town. The next year, after graduation, I was on my way. So was Paul. He went to Harvard, of course. He graduated with honors and became a lawyer; he's still allergic to everything. As for my father, well, we patched things up. Hey, we were family -- for better or worse, one for all, and all for one. Karen's son was born that September. I got to say, I think he looks like me; poor kid. Mom? She did well -- business woman, board chairman, grandmother, still cooks the meanest mashed potatoes I know. The Wayner stayed on in furniture. Wood seemed to suit him; in fact, he took over the factory two years later when dad passed away. Winnie left the next summer to study art history in Paris. Still, we never forgot our promise. We wrote to each other once a week for the next eight years. I was there to meet her when she came home; so was my wife and our first son, who was eight months old. Like I said, things never turn out exactly the way you'd planned. Growing up happens in a heartbeat; one day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a town like a lot of other towns, a house like a lot of other houses, a yard like a lot of other yards, on a street like a lot of other streets... The kicker is, after all these years, I still look back with Wonder.

  Son of Kevin Arnold : Dad? Wanna play catch?

  Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : I'll be right there.

• Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : I'd set out to find myself, and ended up losing everything.

• Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : Great! All the Chevy's in all the world, she has to walk into mine.

• Winnie Cooper : That's it, stop the car. I'm getting out.

  Kevin Arnold : Oh no. No, I'm getting out.

  Winnie Cooper : Fine then, get out!

  Kevin Arnold : No! No, you get out! I'm staying here.

  Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : [car drives off, revealing Kevin and Winnie stood by the roadside]  So we both got out... thrown out.

• Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : [as Kevin plays poker]  By that evening, I'd come up with a plan. Win enough money to buy out the resort, and fire all the lifeguards. After that, suicide.

• Kevin Arnold : [walks into the canteen, where Winnie and Eric are having breakfast at a table]  Winnie?

  Eric : [stands up]  Hey!

  Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : I had all night to decide what to do.

  Kevin Arnold : I just want you to know...

  [he punches Eric, who falls across the breakfast table] 

  Kevin Arnold - The Narrator : And there you had it.

  Kevin Arnold : ...I'll be leaving now.

  [picks up his bag, and walks out]