“My kids never had the advantage I had. I was born poor.”
Kirk Douglas

“I don't want to be poor. I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be alone. Help me, fairy godmother, please!”

Ally Sheedy - Jessie Montgomery

“It's not a little itty-bitty bean. It's an averaged sized bean. There are kids in parts of the world who would walk 50 miles through quicksand just so they could stick a toe in your swimming pool. There are kids who would eat beans because they've had nothing to eat their whole life but leaves and bark and roots.”

Ben Stiller - Tim Dingman

“- Amanda Minchin: You mean to tell me that the child is penniless, and she's left on my hands with nothing?
- Mr. Barrows: She's certainly left penniless, and she's certainly left on your hands.”
Mary Nash - Amanda Minchin
E.E. Clive - Mr. Barrows

“- Alfred: You don't have to be a genius to figure out they going to come after you for this.
- Tristan: Yeah. Alfred?
- Alfred: Yeah?
- Tristan: I want to ask you to watch over my children. Watch over Samuel.
- Alfred: Brother, it will be an honor.”
Aidan Quinn - Alfred Ludlow
Brad Pitt - Tristan Ludlow