"Well, we start tomorrow. We're goin' to Missouri with ten thousand head. Most of you men have come back to Texas from the war. You came back to nothing. You find your homes gone, your cattle scattered, and your land stolen by carpetbaggers. Well there's no money and no work because there's no market for beef in the South. But there is in Missouri. So we're goin' to Missouri...Cumberland didn't make it. No one else has. That's the reason I'm here. I want you all to know what you're up against. You probably already know, but I want to make sure you do. We got a thousand miles to go. Ten miles a day'll be good. Fifteen will be luck. It'll be dry country, dry wells when we get to 'em. There'll be wind, rain. There's gonna be Indian Territory - how bad I don't know. When we get to Missouri, there'll be border gangs. It's gonna be a fight all the way. But we'll get there. Nobody has to come along. We'll still have a job for ya when we get back. Now remember this! Every man who signs on for this drive agrees to finish it. There'll be no quittin' along the way, not by me and not by you! There's no hard feelings if you don't want to go. But just let me know now."

"[to Meeker] All right, we rounded up some of your stock and some of Diego's and some of everybody else's around here...I haven't got the time or the inclination to cut 'em out. So I'll drive 'em to Missouri and give you two dollars a head when I get back."

"Wherever they go, they'll be on my land. My land. We're here and we're gonna stay here. Give me ten years and I'll have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas."

"It's all right. For fourteen years, I've been scared, but it's gonna be all right."

"[to Bunk] Your sweet tooth is almost as bad as having a whiskey tongue or liking a woman."

"[to Bunk] I could take the end of your nose off just as easy. A man in your age stealin' sugar!"

"[reading a letter about Baby] "He's three years old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs." I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?"

"Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but, well, there haven't been any quiet moments."

"When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run!"

"That brings out a sort of pear-shaped tone, you see?"

"Katharine Hepburn — Susan Vance"

"Cary Grant — Dr. David Huxley"

"May Robson — Aunt Elizabeth Random"

"Fritz Feld — Dr. Fritz Lehman"

"Virginia Walker — Alice Swallow"

"D'Arcy Corrigan — Prof. LaTouche"

"[limping after losing a heel] I was born on the side of a hill!"