"The nuns taught us there are two ways through life … the way of Nature… and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things. They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace... ever comes to a bad end. I will be true to you. Whatever comes."

"My hope. My God. What did you gain?"

"Kari Matchett - Jack's ex"

"Tamara Jolaine - Mrs. Stone"

"Dustin Allen - George Walsh"

"Crystal Mantecón - Elisa"

"Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life is a film of vast ambition and deep humility, attempting no less than to encompass all of existence and view it through the prism of a few infinitesimal lives. The only other film I've seen with this boldness of vision is Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and it lacked Malick's fierce evocation of human feeling. … I don't know when a film has connected more immediately with my own personal experience. In uncanny ways, the central events of The Tree of Life reflect a time and place I lived in, and the boys in it are me. If I set out to make an autobiographical film, and if I had Malick's gift, it would look so much like this. … There is a father who maintains discipline and a mother who exudes forgiveness, and long summer days of play and idleness and urgent unsaid questions about the meaning of things. … The film's portrait of everyday life, inspired by Malick's memories of his hometown of Waco, Texas, is bounded by two immensities, one of space and time, and the other of spirituality. The Tree of Life has awe-inspiring visuals suggesting the birth and expansion of the universe, the appearance of life on a microscopic level and the evolution of species. This process leads to the present moment, and to all of us. We were created in the Big Bang and over untold millions of years, molecules formed themselves into, well, you and me. And what comes after? In whispered words near the beginning, "nature" and "grace" are heard. … The film's coda provides a vision of an afterlife, a desolate landscape on which quiet people solemnly recognize and greet one another, and all is understood in the fullness of time."

"Kimberly Whalen - Mrs. Brown"

"Jackson Hurst - Uncle Roy"

"Fiona Shaw - Grandmother"

"Joanna Going - Jack's wife"

"Michael Showers - Mr. Brown"

"Now and then, for no good reason, life will haul off and knock a man flat."

"Burn Sanderson: [about how to tell if an animal has rabies] You can't hardly tell at first, not till they get to the point of slobbering and staggering around. When you see a critter in that fix, you know for sure. But you want to watch for others that ain't that far along. Now, you take a bobcat or a fox. You know they'll run if you give 'em the chance. But when one don't run, or maybe makes fight at you, why, you shoot him and shoot him quick. After he's bitten you, it's too late."

"Chuck Connors - Burn Sanderson"

"Spike - Old Yeller"

"Dorothy McGuire - Katie Coates"

"Tommy Kirk - Travis Coates"

"Kevin Corcoran - Arliss Coates"

"Jeff York - Bud Searcy"

"Fess Parker - Jim Coates"

"Beverly Washburn - Lisbeth Searcy"

"All the heart, all the excitement of a great frontier adventure!"

"A motion picture to remember with glowing pleasure!"

"Matthew McConaughey — Vilmer Sawyer"

"Robert Jacks — Leatherface"

"James Gale — Rothman"

"John Harrison — Sean"

"Joe Stevens — W. E. Sawyer"

"Tyler Shea Cone — Barry"

"Renée Zellweger — Jenny"

"Lisa Marie Newmyer — Heather"

"He's back. You're dead."

"The legend is reborn."

"If looks could kill he wouldn't need a chainsaw."

"Tonie Perensky — Darla"

"Still buzzing after all these years."

""I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer." That's Ulysses S. Grant. But you wouldn't know that, would you? Cuz' you're a bona fide moron."

"[whipping Jenny with a cattle prod] It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

"The American legend returns, to bring you back to the cutting edge of terror."

"You get to running with the wrong crowd, wind up in the reformatory. No respect. No discipline. That's the problem. Family values have gone straight to hell."

"If you're gonna kill me then do it! I'm not gonna put up with any more of your crap. It's bullshit!"

"Why are my batteries not charged?"