“- Ted Foster: I thought that if you wanted to marry a girl you were supposed to ask her father.
- Harry C. Thomas: You must be talking about some other father, some other family. Not a family with only one father and three daughters. Nobody asks him anything. He's lucky if he gets told.”
John Shelton - Ted Foster
Frank Morgan - Harry C. Thomas

“Mothers don't lose daughters. Don't you remember? They gain sons.”
Teresa Wright - Charlie Newton

“A year later, the impossible finally happened. One of the Holt boys married one of the Abbott girls. We had two daughters. Named the youngest Helen, after my mom.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Doug Holt

“Who's the lucky, soon-to-be-dead son-in-law?”
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

“You are married. You have a daughter. You don't need self-esteem.”

Eileen Heckart - Catherine MacDuggan