“- Margaret Lewin: Any animal can give birth. That doesn't make it a mother.
- Khaila Richards: Are you calling me an animal? If you think you're going to just take my baby from me like some puppy from a pound, you got another thing coming, lady!”
Jessica Lange - Margaret Lewin
Halle Berry - Khaila Richards

“- Kathryn Morgan: Our shark couldn't have killed Overman. Its mother did.
- Calvin Bouchard: You're talkin' about some damn shark's mother?”
Bess Armstrong - Dr. Kathryn 'Kay' Morgan
Louis Gossett Jr. - Calvin Bouchard

“- Thomas Alden: It's amazing, isn't it, how they follow her around like that?
- Glen Seifert: It's called imprinting. The first living thing a goose sees when it's born, it automatically assume is its mother.”

Jeff Daniels - Thomas Alden
Jeremy Ratchford - Glen Seifert

“- Kate: Do you believe in love? The kind that lasts forever?
- Luc Teyssier: I loved my mother.
- Kate: No, everybody loves their mother. Even people who hate their mothers love their mothers.”
Meg Ryan - Kate
Kevin Kline - Luc Teyssier

“- Liesel Meminger: Do you think my mother really loved me?
- Max Vandenburg: Of course. Every mother loves her child. Even Hitler's.”
Sophie Nélisse - Liesel Meminger
Ben Schnetzer - Max Vandenburg