- Evelyn Stratton: Edward, I need a phone.
- [Edward points to the duck phone; she doesn't get it, and he lifts the receiver]
- Evelyn Stratton: I refuse to speak into a duck!
- Edward Stratton III: Suit yourself.
- Ricky Stratton: If you're my friend, how come you stopped me from getting a motorcycle? I really wanted one!
- Kate Summers: Because a real friend doesn't just tell you the things that you want to hear. I worry about your having an accident on that motorcycle - and I will not apologize for worrying about you! Because I love you... Well, I - I just wanted to tell you how I feel.
- Ricky Stratton: [as she leaves] ... Kate?
- Kate Summers: Yes?
- Ricky Stratton: ...I love you, too.
- Edward Stratton III: Rick, your mom's taking you to Bernard's by the Bay, and they have a proper attire requirement.
- Ricky Stratton: I don't like Bernard's by the Bay, Dad! Fourteen dollars for a hamburger - and it doesn't even come with a bun! The last time I was there, I asked the waiter for some ketchup, and he looked at me like I'd just shot his dog.
- Edward Stratton III: Well, you see, son - your mother is philosophically opposed to eating at anyplace that doesn't have valet parking.
- Kate Summers: In my opinion, motorcycles are very dangerous.
- Edward Stratton III: I agree on the streets, Kate - but we're going to be using them off the highway, in the country.
- Kate Summers: But they're still dangerous. When I was 14, my cousin was riding his dirt bike through the woods; he hit a log, flew off the cycle and broke his neck. He was paralyzed for life.
- Ricky Stratton: After all you've done, can't you just leave me alone?
- Kate Summers: I want us to talk this out...
- Ricky Stratton: There's nothing to talk about! Me and my dad were all set to get our dirt bikes - and then you come up with this bummer story about your relative? And the next thing I know, I'm right back on my Schwinn.
- Kate Summers: All I was trying to do...
- Ricky Stratton: You were trying to act like my mother!... And you're not my mother.
- Kate Summers: Ricky, your father and I are... involved right now. And - and it's a tough situation for all of us. You're not sure where I fit in - and, to tell you the truth, I'm not sure either. Now, I'm not trying to be your mother - but I am trying to be your friend.
- Evelyn Stratton: You conned me, young man. Now, what do you have to say for yourself?
- Ricky Stratton: I'm sorry, Mom; I'll never do it again. If I do, you can tie one end of a rope to me, and the other end to a smelly camel - and then you can drag me across the Gobi Desert, until my body swells up, and my tongue turns black.
- Evelyn Stratton: I need to use a phone, Miss Sombers.
- Kate Summers: That's Summers.
- Evelyn Stratton: Right.
- Kate Summers: The phone is right here.
- [a fish on the wall]
- Evelyn Stratton: That's a fish.
- Kate Summers: [lifts receiver] It's a fish phone.
- Evelyn Stratton: I'll use the phone in the limo.
- Kate Summers: Suit yourself.
- Edward Stratton III: Son, your tie is the wrong length.
- Ricky Stratton: You wear it the same way all the time, it gets boring.