“- Morgan: What am I supposed to do?
- Dalton: There's always barber college.”
Terry Funk - Morgan
Patrick Swayze - Dalton

“- Mr. Evans: Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse. And they let in every tailor's son... and every farmer's daughter in that country.
- Jack Bull Chiles: Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. Or a gun either.”
Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans
Skeet Ulrich - Jack Bull Chiles

“- Principal Turner: Miss Riley, once in a while a lucky one will get out on a football scholarship. The rest of 'em work in the mines.
- Miss Riley: How 'bout I believe in the unlucky ones? Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind.”

Chris Ellis - Principal Turner
Laura Dern - Miss Riley

“We always worked for a living. It's damn time you joined the rest of us and decided just what it is you're gonna do with your life.”

James Cromwell - George H. W. Bush

“When you start killing for a dream, you usually end up killing the dream too. That's what hell is, watching your dreams die. Your education will set you free.”
Robert Hooks - King David