“- Ellen Griswold: I hope at least you kids have learned something from this.
- Audrey Griswold: Yeah! Don't die unless someone's home!”
Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold
Dana Barron - Audrey Griswold

“- Jane Burns: If you don't let me, I'll never learn.
- Dan Burns: But if I let you, you might not live.”

Alison Pill - Jane
Steve Carrell - Dan

“Dying's a really hard way to learn about life.”
Michael Keaton - Bob Jones

“- Chris: What do you mean?
- Cathy: She never allowed us have a... dog, or a kitten.
- Chris: What's that got to do with anything?
- Cathy: Because pets die, Christopher. And if we had had a pet and it had died, then we would have learned something about that.
- Chris: About what? About death?”

Jeb Stuart Adams - Chris
Kristy Swanson - Cathy

“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz