- Mendel Sorkin: Mr Yates, sometimes a man doesn't know what he really wants. Inside, even though I've longed to go, I've also been fighting it. This is my country.
- Gil Favor: That's a drover?
- Rowdy Yates: Must be. He's pushing cattle.
- Gil Favor: But which way?
- Pete Nolan: That's a good question. I been watching off and on for an hour. He hasn't made an inch in any direction yet.
- Mendel Sorkin: Naturally you're going to send your share home.
- Mushy: Well.
- Mendel Sorkin: At least you don't intend to waste it on dancing, girls, foolishness.
- Mushy: Well, to tell you the truth, I did have a little foolishness on my mind.
- Mendel Sorkin: I see. Your mother has never done anything for you in all her life. Why should you do anything for her? Why should you save a little of your wages for your selfish mother.
- Mushy: Now hold on, Mr Sorkin.
- Mendel Sorkin: I'm merely trying to find out why you don't love her.
- Mushy: I do love her.
- Mendel Sorkin: Moshe , when did you last write home, send her a little thought, a slight gift.
- [Mendel means the tacky Indian doll with the big feather that he has]
- Mushy: It's Mushy.
- Mendel Sorkin: Moshe? Are you Jewish?
- Mushy: Well, I don't think.
- Mendel Sorkin: Be proud of your heritage, Moshe. You come from a proud people.
- Mushy: Yes, sir.
- Wahkshum: Everyone needs someone they feel they can look up to, someone who's, maybe, better in some way. Stronger, smarter, or maybe, just not as lonely.
- Pete Nolan: Hey, Mr Sorkin, that sure smells good.
- Wishbone: Here!
- [He dumps food onto Pete's plate]
- Pete Nolan: Hey Wishbone, why don't you ever cook with chicken fat and onions?
- Wishbone: 'Cos all that foreign food isn't good for yer! Chicken fat!
- Mendel Sorkin: Meet my fiancee.
- Gil Favor: Nice looking girl.
- Mendel Sorkin: Girl? She's a widow with 6 children. But she has a good farm. She looks jolly. What more can a man want?
- Wahkshum: Kumush will give the white man time to consider. He has no desire to spill blood. Anyone who wishes to leave, may leave. But when the lance in the ground has no shadow, Kumush will attack.
- Wahkshum: Not everyone can make a home wherever he is. As you do with your wine, and your candles, and your prayers. It is so beautiful.
- Mendel Sorkin: But he asked you to come and you refused.
- Wahkshum: No, I only told him there is a man I wanted to say goodbye to first.
- Mendel Sorkin: Mr Favor, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. I just found out home is where your love is. It doesn't matter whether it's Amsterdam, or Laredo, or a wigwam, does it?
- George Wales: What do you want, Mendel?
- Mendel Sorkin: The same thing I've wanted for years, my $50.
- George Wales: I haven't got it.
- Mendel Sorkin: I had it when you needed it.