David Brian: Jacob Calvin

Quotes 

• Jacob Calvin : Listen. You stay clear of those cowhands. They're like sailors. Courting a woman comes easy to them. But they don't stay put for very long.

  Melissa Calvin : Yes, Pa.

• Rowdy Yates : First time I've seen a jail with no doors on it.

  Jacob Calvin : No, it's not a good way to live with or without doors.

• Jacob Calvin : The Army had no further use for it after the war. But I did. In my mind I could see the corn and wheat standing higher than any man. I couldn't afford the property alone so I went out and gathered these folks and talked them into sharing the land with me.

• Melissa Calvin : We have no milk or sugar.

  Illora Calvin : We have nothing. I used to have a lot of beautiful things. But they're all gone. Sold to buy empty holes in the ground.

  Jacob Calvin : You'll get them all back.

  Illora Calvin : When? Your promises don't have long to live.

• Jacob Calvin : I'll send the money as soon as the crop's in.

  Gil Favor : Well, well, we best get moving. 'Bye, Miss Calvin.

  Melissa Calvin : 'Bye.

  Rowdy Yates : You, er, you don't have to send the money, Mr Calvin. We'll pick it up on our way back.

  Gil Favor : Rowdy!

  Rowdy Yates : Oh, ah, in the Spring.

• Jacob Calvin : Illora isn't as bad a woman as she seems to be, Mr Favor.

  Gil Favor : I'm afraid that depends on which side you're on.

  Jacob Calvin : It's living in this valley. She isn't cut out for it. She's a Castillian.

  Gil Favor : She's Spanish?

  [He must have had his eyes and his mind firmly closed the night before when she danced, but no, he'd been watching her] 

  Jacob Calvin : She's got distant relations out in California. They one of those Spanish land grants. That's where she wanted me to take her. But it's not the same when someone gives you your life like a gift. If a man gotta build a life, he's gotta do it on his own. That's what she can't understand.

• Jacob Calvin : I tried. The Good Lord knows I tried to give everybody what I thought was good. Somewhere along the line, I failed. You get to a point where there's no turning back. Who's to judge where that point is.