- Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart: You afraid of me?
- Terry 'Tess' Wilkins: Ain't afraid!
- Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart: Maybe it's because I wear my hear like this. Believe me. It's only because I love my father... out of difference to his race.
- Terry 'Tess' Wilkins: You talk funny.
- Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart: Well, that's out of difference to Harvard. That's a school. I went there to learn. I'm Sam Buckheart. You can call me Sam.
- Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart: You didn't look very long.
- Martha Commager: Sam Buckheart, you stop plaguing her! Makes no more sense than the wind in the
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- Martha Commager: thinking a little girl like that can feel easy with those old rags on her back.
- Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart: You're right. I'm a very stupid man.
- Johnny: My neck don't stretch any better than yours and I ain't putting it in no rope. I'm gonna get as close as I can get to where it just misses me... the better I like it.
- Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart: I can say a few words... I return this body from which it came. The spirit, I return to thee, commending it to thy great and everlasting love. Amen.