Favorite quotes

[Ohio8]

Sister Ethel: "Enough of this stinkin' mood music! Let's get funky!"

[MA]

Elizabeth:
I don't even know my own daughter!

Wendy:
Well, excuse me! Is it a crime to have phony I.D.'s?

[Ohio8]

Connie: "...and watch Daddy nail your butt to the barnyard wall."

[MA]

Coach Graham T. Lubbock:
Are you happy with these grades?

Wendy:
Are you happy with them?

[Ohio8]

(First line of the series.)
Connie: (thinking while writing)"It's official, my life is over. I know I've used this phrase before in this journal, but this time I really mean it. My life is over."

Graham: "Now this is America."

Connie: "April 26th. It's official. Today is the first day of the rest of my life."

Connie: "My life is definitely over."

Marie: "This looks like something out of Nightmare on Elm Street!"

Marie: (o.s.)"Wow! This kitchen is like a torture chamber."

Cindy: "The oldest gets to pick first."

Connie: "No, but she knows what she likes."

J.R.: "Yo, Dad."

Cindy: "I agree with Wendy. I don't think there's anything wrong with posing in the nude, as long it's done for the sake of art."
Wendy: (smiles)"I'd do it."

Elizabeth: "Ohh, this is gonna be such a happy home, Graham."

[MA]

Marie:
Oh, I don't believe my ears!

Cindy:
Oh, maybe you should wear your hair down-- nobody'll see 'em.

[Ohio8]

Graham: "Ah, Elizabeth, thanks for bein' as tough on me as your daughters were."
Elizabeth: "Oh, honey, my pleasure."

Graham: "Nope, they're beautiful... Just like little angels."

(Last lines of the series.)
Graham: "I'm not a softie! Tell them, Elizabeth!"
Elizabeth: "That's right. Your father's one of the most cold and heartless men I've ever met, and don't let me ever hear you say different."

[Ohio8]

Graham: "Aw, honey, I don't know what to say."
Elizabeth: "They're just like you had in New York."
Cindy: "Dad, now you're bicoastal."
(Graham turns to Elizabeth.)
Elizabeth: "It's a good thing."

[Ohio8]

Wendy: "Mom, leather was on sale."
Elizabeth: "Wendy."
Wendy: "Fifty percent off."
Elizabeth: "Really??"

Graham: "What's the exchange rate of love to dollars?"
Wendy: "Well, in my experience -- "
(Elizabeth and Graham glare at Wendy.)
Wendy: "Never mind."

Marie: "I had an epiphany."
Graham: "Save it, Marie. Your mother already told me your period has nothing to do with this."

Marie: (to Elizabeth)"From your lips to God's ears."
Connie: "Lips and ears. Thta's what's in there."

[MA]

Elizabeth Lubbock:
Marie! Don't pray in front of the TV! That's Satan's altar!