- [Zek comes back from the dead, and confronts his son]
- Zek: It was a test, to see if you were ready to take my place! And you failed, miserably!
- [last lines]
- Commander Sisko: [to Jake] You're a great boy, you know that? Now go be with your friend.
- Commander Sisko: Going through my own adolescence was difficult enough. Surviving my son's is going to take a miracle.
- Zek: The Gamma Quadrant, gentlemen - millions of new worlds at our very doorstep. The potential for Ferengi business expansion is staggering.
- Krax: And best of all, no one there has ever heard the name 'Ferengi'!
- Gral: Our reputation will be absolutely stainless.
- Nava: Our word can be our bond.
- Krax: Until we decide to break it!
- Chief O'Brien: [of Jake] If he were my son, I'd find a friend for him other than Nog.
- Commander Sisko: I'm afraid that's easier said than done. The two of them have become inseparable.
- Chief O'Brien: I'd find a way to separate them, sir. That Nog's a bad influence.
- Commander Sisko: I appreciate the advice, Chief, but I trust my son. Besides, if I get between them now, it would become me versus Nog, and I'm not going to force Jake to choose between us.
- Chief O'Brien: Why not?
- Commander Sisko: Because I'd probably lose.
- Chief O'Brien: Oh, I doubt that, sir.
- Commander Sisko: That's because your daughter's three. Wait until she's fourteen!
- Quark: So, Rom, you were gonna toss me out an airlock?
- Rom: Forgive me, Brother.
- Quark: Forgive you! Why, brother, I didn't think you had the lobes! Such wonderful treachery deserves a reward. I'm gonna make you the assistant manager of policy and clientele here at Quark's.
- Rom: W-what exactly does that mean?
- Quark: How should I know? Just made it up.
- [first lines]
- Jake Sisko: [getting his things together] Shoes.
- Commander Sisko: [enters] I have a surprise for you.