“I wish they could would make Thanksgiving on a Sunday. Then everyone could go to a service before they eat with their families. It'd be more religious, like it was with the Pilgrims.”
Kathy Bates - Maurine Collier

“- Lina: Tonight is Shabbat.
- Jakob: Great. We'll fast like every other night.”
Hannah Taylor Gordon - Lina
Robin Williams - Jakob

“- Edna Buxton: Mother, the dress doesn't fit.
- Mrs. Buxton: The dress fits the occasion. It's you that doesn't fit.”
Illeana Douglas - Edna Buxton
Christina Pickles - Mrs. Buxton

“Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist.”
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore

The Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!". We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!
Bill Pullman - President Thomas J. Whitmore