“- 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

“- 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

“- 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

“I don't want to go through life like my mother, afraid that I'm not really loved, even if it meant I could go through life with you.”
Romola Garai - Cassandra Mortmain

“The only Valentine's Day cards I get are from my mother. How pathetic is that?”
Thomas Jay Ryan - Frank