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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Quotes

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is a Western (genre) that debuted in 1993 on CBS. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman completed its run in 1998.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman aired for 6 + 2 TV movies seasons and 149 (plus 2 TV movies) episodes. It features William Olvis (theme music and all but 4 episodes) as composer. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is created by Beth Sullivan.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is 47 minutes long. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman is produced by The Sullivan Company and distributed by MTM Enterprises.

The cast includes: Joe Lando as Byron Sully, William Shockley as Hank Lawson, Geoffrey Lower as Rev. Timothy Johnson, Shawn Toovey as Brian Cooper, Kenny Rogers as Daniel Watkins, Orson Bean as Loren Bray, Barbara Babcock as Dorothy Jennings, Frank Collison as Horace Bing, Ben Murphy as Ethan Cooper, Alley Mills as Marjorie Quinn, Jim Knobeloch as Jake Slicker, Jonelle Allen as Grace, Helene Udy as Myra Bing, Gail Strickland as Olive Bray, Chad Allen as Matthew Cooper, Henry G. Sanders as Robert E., Jon Cypher as Preston A. Lodge III, Verna Bloom as Paul, Diane Ladd as Charlotte Cooper, Andrew Prine as Thaddeus Birch, Georgann Johnson as Elizabeth Quinn, Christine Healy as Dr. Miriam Tilson, Denise Crosby as Isabelle Maynard, Johnny Cash as Kid Cole, June Carter Cash as Sister Ruth, Jon Cypher as Prisoner, and Edward Albert as Dr. William Burke.

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Quotes

Johnny Cash as Kid Cole

  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "What happened to your plans to settle down, plant some rose bushes?"
  • (Johnny Cash) "Boys like him kept tryin' to make me push up rose bushes instead of plantin' 'em."
  • (Johnny Cash) "Looks like the only way I'm gonna have me a quiet, peaceful little town is to make me one."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Tobacco? You know what that'll do for your tuberculosis?"
  • (Johnny Cash) "No ma'am, but I'm sure you're plannin' on tellin' me."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Wanted: Sheriff. Must be of strong moral fiber and have knowledge of the law."
  • (Johnny Cash) "There go most of your candidates right there."
  • (Johnny Cash) "You ain't gonna be my boss, are ya?"

Orson Bean as Loren Bray

  • (Orson Bean) "Seems parents and children spend half their lives not seeing eye to eye. By the time they do find some common ground, there's barely any time left to enjoy it."
  • (Orson Bean) "They stole my purse."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Well, I'm sorry that you were robbed, but I must say you're looking rather lovely this evening."
  • (Orson Bean) "We can't have a lady mayor. What's that gonna make us look like?"
  • (William Shockley) "A town full of sissies?"
  • (Orson Bean) "Why don't ya just drop me down the side of the mountain and have done with it."
  • (Joe Lando) "Don't tempt me."
  • (Unnamed) "She was aiding the enemy."
  • (Orson Bean) "Ah, she thought she was helping the Indians. She just does stuff like that. Ya gotta ignore it."
  • (Orson Bean) "And I thought this one was bad."

Joe Lando as Byron Sully

  • (Joe Lando) "Why don't ya quit tryin' so hard?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Old habits."
  • (Joe Lando) "Give 'em up."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "What was it this time?"
  • (Joe Lando) "She thought she saw a bear out the window."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "A bear?"
  • (Joe Lando) "It was a laundry tub. Took quite a fight, but I think I scared it off."
  • (Cloud Dancing) "The marriage is good?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Yeah. It's great."
  • (Cloud Dancing) "It took Snow Bird and I many months to discover that we no longer rode separate horses."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "How long before we go?"
  • (Joe Lando) "You're not going. The women stay in camp."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Not this woman."
  • (Joe Lando) "You don't raise children to keep 'em in way that puts your mind at ease. You raise 'em so they know how to look out for themselves."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Where does that leave Horace? He's been struggling at the plate. He's afraid of striking out."
  • (Joe Lando) "He's not the only one --"
  • (Joe Lando) "Where you're born always kind of has a pull on ya, whether ya like it or not."
  • (Joe Lando) "Someone's wife is pretty mad."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "My goodness, she's angry. I feel sorry for the poor fellow. Whose teepee is it?"
  • (Cloud Dancing) "Mine."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "What took you so long?"
  • (Joe Lando) "I had to make my bat."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "You're right. I was jealous."
  • (Joe Lando) "I know."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "It was foolish."
  • (Joe Lando) "It was."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Must you agree with me all of the time?"
  • (Joe Lando) "I like talking -- and I like having breakfast with you. But I also like kissin'."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Well, there should be a balance."
  • (Joe Lando) "But you're good at kissin'."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Sully."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Sully -- it isn't dark yet."
  • (Joe Lando) "But it's getting darker -- and darker -- and darker."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "-- and darker."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Do you think a man can love two women at the same time?"
  • (Joe Lando) "If you were one of the women, would you want him to?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "You mean if I were Arapaho and you were Cheyenne --"
  • (Joe Lando) "We couldn't get married, nope."
  • (Joe Lando) "I'd have to carry you off in the night."
  • (Joe Lando) "You know what the Cheyanne ask a young man who's just taken a wife?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "What?"
  • (Joe Lando) "'Does she show enthusiasm?' -- I appreciate your enthusiasm."
  • (Joe Lando) "I stand with the truth."
  • (Franklin) "Black Kettle says that is the only place for a leader to stand."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "We were always so close."
  • (Joe Lando) "Maybe that's the problem."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Beg your pardon?"
  • (Joe Lando) "She's gotta step outta your shadow. It's a mighty tall shadow."
  • (Joe Lando) "I know what you're thinkin', and the answer's 'yes'. I'll always love you, no matter what happens. I'll always find you as beautiful as the first day I saw you."
  • (Joe Lando) "You could sell the extra corn just to buy things you need; like some meat."
  • (Cloud Dancing) "Buy meat?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Different women give you different kinds of love."
  • (Chad Allen) "How do you even know if it is love?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Let your heart tell ya. Just make sure it's your heart doin' the talkin'."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "You never told me you played baseball."
  • (Joe Lando) "Just for fun. We used to play it in the mining camps."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "This rule book is very interesting. I never realized it was such an orderly and courteous game."
  • (Joe Lando) "Not the way we played it."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Don't we have enough?"
  • (Joe Lando) "You wanna learn to fish -- ya gotta dig for worms."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Ha. Here's one."
  • (Joe Lando) "Half worms don't count."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Why not?"
  • (Joe Lando) "It's fishin' rules."
  • (Cloud Dancing) "Man and woman are not meant to be alone. Like Mother Earth and Father Sky, everyone needs a partner or they become unbalanced. It's nature."
  • (Joe Lando) "Dr. Mike's an awfully strong force of nature."
  • (Joe Lando) "I'm good at fixin' things when I can see what's wrong. But, this thing that's comin', it's so big -- I don't know where to start."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "We'll find a way. But I promise you, if the day ever comes that I see your heart breaking and you can't take it any longer, we'll pack up."
  • (Joe Lando) "Got somthin' for ya -- an early Christmas present."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "Really?"
  • (Joe Lando) "I made this when I was with the Cheyanne. Didn't make it for myself, but to give as a gift. And all these years I been walkin' around with it, not knowin' who I made it for until now. I made it for my son."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Don't be stubborn."
  • (Joe Lando) "It's an old habit."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Give it up."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "There're some mornings, I just want to stay in bed and hide under the covers. Or take a buggy ride out to the lake -- not let anyone know where I am -- Just let life go on without "Dr. Mike"."
  • (Joe Lando) "It would, ya know."
  • (Joe Lando) "I'll be your family."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "And I'll be your best friend."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "You're looking very pleased with yourself."
  • (Joe Lando) "When the children knock and you don't jump up, I know I got your attention."
  • (Joe Lando) "Michaela, I love you. And I would do anything for you. I'd give my life for you, you know that. And I wanna marry you. But more than that, I want you to be happy. So you gotta choose the person who's gonna make you happy; the person that would be best for you. And whatever you do, I'll be behind you. I just wanted you to know that."
  • (Joe Lando) "She's awfully angry."
  • (Cloud Dancing) "You have stuck your hand in a hornet's nest that was hidden. I have done that myself."
  • (Joe Lando) "Well, if this is what it's gonna be like bein' with a woman, I don't know if I'm fit for it."
  • (Joe Lando) "Whether or not we make a baby, we sure can have fun trying."
  • (Joe Lando) "This is the place I come when I lose my way and I have to find it again. I've never shown anyone this place -- Not even Abigail."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Is it just me, or have I been pregnant for ten years?"
  • (Joe Lando) "It'll be over soon."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "And you've been saying that to me for ten years as well."
  • (Joe Lando) "The minute you put on a gun, you're sayin' that you're willin' to use it. Now, that's just invitin' trouble."
  • (Joe Lando) "Why did I come?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Yes."
  • (Joe Lando) "I told ya."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "What's the real reason?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Because."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Because?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Because I love you."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I think we've had this discussion before Reverend. Do you or do you not answer to a higher power?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Maybe you better figure that out, Reverend."
  • (Joe Lando) "Blamin' doesn't fix things. It just makes them go on and on tearin' at folks."
  • (Joe Lando) "I don't want ya to leave. I wanna be with you. I need to be with you."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Sully --"
  • (Joe Lando) "I will love you all my days. Will you marry me?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Yes."
  • (Joe Lando) "There's only one thing I know about women; you gotta be lucky enough to find the right one, and then never let her go."
  • (Cloud Dancing) "When you read a story, you cannot know who tells it; cannot see him, or hear his voice. If you cannot see his spirit, the story has no meaning."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Well, all we wanna do is give them a new way of learning, so they can have both ways."
  • (Joe Lando) "Just so the new ways don't wipe out the old."
  • (Joe Lando) "The Cheyanne say that the dead carry their scars with them to the afterlife."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Well, I disagree. I believe it's the people who are left who carry the scars."
  • (Joe Lando) "Morning, folks. Like you to meet Katherine Sully."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "You know what Sam said? She said that seeing us together is like watching a fire burn."
  • (Joe Lando) "Is that good?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Well, ignore a fire and it burns out. But if you tend to it, take care of it, feed it -- it keeps growing bigger; burns brighter."
  • (Joe Lando) "She's my heartsong."
  • (Cloud Dancing) "What of their true nature will survive if they live as white people?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "All we want to do is prepare them for the future."
  • (Joe Lando) "They won't have a future if they don't have a past."
  • (Joe Lando) "Rich people pay to eat snails?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Sully -- In my heart I know where I want us to be. But I don't know how we'll get there."
  • (Joe Lando) "Me neither -- There's no maps, but if you're willing to start off without one --"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I am."
  • (Joe Lando) "Then I know where to start."
  • (Joe Lando) "She kissed me."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "What's the difference?"
  • (Joe Lando) "It takes two people to kiss, Brian. It's like when you wanna go fishin' and I don't, but I go anyway because I don't wanna hurt your feelings. Do you think you can understand that?"
  • (Shawn Toovey) "I think fishin's fishin' and kissin's kissin'. That's what I think."
  • (Joe Lando) "You love David."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Yes, I'll always love him. But that's the past and you're the present -- we're the present -- If you'll have me -- Will you, Sully?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Will I what?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Will you marry me?"
  • (Joe Lando) "-- Yes."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Do I look as foolish as I feel?"
  • (Joe Lando) "I think you're beautiful when you're jealous."
  • (Joe Lando) "We're the same two people we were before we got married. Nothin's changed."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "But it has. Everything's changed. It's no longer 'you' and 'me', it's 'us'. You're a part of me now. And that's a very powerful feeling."

Jon Cypher as Prisoner

  • (Jon Cypher) "Carpe diem."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "Carpet what?"
  • (Jon Cypher) "Newlyweds. Well that explains everything. I was wondering why they were the only two on the train not enjoying the view."
  • (Jon Cypher) "Why'd you do it? Why'd you save my life?"
  • (Joe Lando) "If you don't know by now, you never will."
  • (Jon Cypher) "What do you say, Sully? Do you think I should keep my mouth shut?"
  • (Joe Lando) "I don't think it's possible, Preston."
  • (Jon Cypher) "D'you hear the news? Dr. Mike is climbing to the top of Pike's Peak."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "Don't worry. After a while, nothin' she does'll seem strange."
  • (Jon Cypher) "That woman was a doctor? Well, I can hardly wait to get sick."
  • (Jon Cypher) "I find the canvases of Mr. Monet and Pissaro very exciting, mind you. But, I must say, they can't hold a candle to yours."
  • (Denise Crosby) "Oh, my. What a warm breeze there is out here."
  • (Jon Cypher) "Interesting character. Remind you of anyone you know? Mountain man turned family man? Once a legend of the rugged back country, now cooking supper for his pregnant wife. Don't take me wrong, Sully. I want nothing but the best for you and Michaela. I can picture you right now with a new baby; rocking him to sleep, changing his little buckskin diapers."
  • (Jon Cypher) "You let a dang woman work on me? What're you tryin' to kill me?"
  • (Johnny Cash) "This ain't no woman. She's a doctor."
  • (Jon Cypher) "You'll have to excuse Sully. He has a tender spot in his heart for squirrels and bunnies and such."

Helene Udy as Myra Bing

  • (Helene Udy) "I don't want to belong to a church where you let a man lay dyin' while you sit here readin' your bibles."
  • (Helene Udy) "That's what I wanted more than anything when I was workin' for Hank; a nice normal life. When Horace and I first fell in love, I was so happy. We'd get married in a nice normal church weddin', and live in a normal house, and have a normal family."
  • (Helene Udy) "Normal life is drivin' me crazy."
  • (Barbara Babcock) "Well, it's gotta be better than workin' in a saloon."
  • (Helene Udy) "Yeah. But I used to speak my mind. I had gumption."

Kenny Rogers as Daniel Watkins

  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "My life is very ordinary."
  • (Kenny Rogers) "After my years of photographing the war I think an ordinary life is amazing. Especially if it's viewed from the proper angle."
  • (Kenny Rogers) "If a lady like Dr. Quinn looked at me the way she looks at you, I'd fall down on one knee and promise myself to her forever."
  • (Kenny Rogers) "Dr. Quinn, I do not want the war to be all that I remember when I close my eyes forever. I want to take every photograph I can. I want to fill my memory with wonder and beauty. I want to recall every sunrise and every mountain peak that reaches for the heavens. And I want to remember women -- who look just the way you do right now. May I take your portrait? Please?"

William Shockley as Hank Lawson

  • (William Shockley) "Care to show us some of them moves?"
  • (Jon Cypher) "With you?"
  • (William Shockley) "Why not? Been a while since I mixed it up a bit."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "Yeah, at least a week."
  • (William Shockley) "Speakin' of ladies -- May I?"
  • (Alley Mills) "No, you may not."
  • (William Shockley) "Pleased to almost meet you."
  • (William Shockley) "You're gettin' one helluva woman."
  • (Henry G. Sanders) "Good luck, Sully."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "You're gonna need it."
  • (William Shockley) "And we thought she was know-it-all before this."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "You did the right thing, Hank."
  • (William Shockley) "Don't let it get around."
  • (William Shockley) "What was I thinking? I had to be crazy. Any man puts up with your harpin's gotta be looney."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Any man who doesn't care about his friends isn't much of a man."
  • (William Shockley) "Don't worry Michaela, you're man enough for both of us."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Well, I never."
  • (William Shockley) "Yeah, well maybe that's the problem."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "What happened?"
  • (William Shockley) "Some guy cut me. How much to sew me up?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I thought you prefered the expertise of Mr. Slicker in these matters."
  • (William Shockley) "Jake's drunk. Now can we talk later, when I'm not bleedin' to death?"
  • (William Shockley) "High stakes poker, Michaela. Bunch of stinkin' drunk men sittin' around a table gamblin', smokin', talkin' dirty and we'd like for you to come. Interested?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "No, thank you."
  • (William Shockley) "Darn."
  • (William Shockley) "What can I do for ya?"
  • (June Carter Cash) "Well, you can come home to the Lord, brother. He's missing you."
  • (William Shockley) "Sorry, I can't say the same."
  • (William Shockley) "What's all the racket? I can hardly hear myself think."
  • (Frank Collison) "Hard enough for you to think as it is."
  • (William Shockley) "Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me. Therefore, turn and draw. And I'll hack off your head before you can count to three."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Wait a minute. Stop. Stop. 'Hack off your head' is not in the play."
  • (William Shockley) "I fixed that line a little."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "You can't just change the lines, Hank."
  • (William Shockley) "I think it's better. Not only that, it rhymes."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Actors."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Dorothy's overcome so much herself. I think she means this book to be inspirational. I'm sure she didn't mean to offend anyone."
  • (William Shockley) "You read it?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I haven't had time yet. I'm looking forward to reading it this afternoon."
  • (William Shockley) "Where exactly you gonna be when you're readin' it?"
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "The clinic, I suppose. Why?"
  • (William Shockley) "Might wanna steer clear of that part of town today, folks."
  • (William Shockley) "I ain't stupid."
  • (Gail Strickland) "Well, that's a matter of opinion."
  • (William Shockley) "What's it like to walk on water, Michaela?"

Jim Knobeloch as Jake Slicker

  • (Jim Knobeloch) "Horace, you're the behind."
  • (Frank Collison) "Behind what?"
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "The striker."
  • (Frank Collison) "I'm the striker's behind?"
  • (Cloud Dancing) "We'll take that horse also."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "What? How am I s'posed to get back?"
  • (Cloud Dancing) "You can keep the shoes."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "Reverend. How do we look?"
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "I don't think they were smoking cigars, gentlemen."
  • (William Shockley) "Hey, we're kings. We can do whatever we want."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "Who the hell is Ralph Waldo?"
  • (Orson Bean) "Probably another darn woman from Boston."
  • (William Shockley) "Great, now we've got two of 'em."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Horace, are you all right?"
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "How many fingers?"
  • (Frank Collison) "Chocolate."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I think he's finished for the day."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "What's myrrh?"
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "Well, myrrh was a -- It is a -- It's a thing that kings have."

Alley Mills as Marjorie Quinn

  • (Alley Mills) "Michaela, I hope you don't mind -- I brought along a friend for dinner."
  • (William Shockley) "Turkey. My favorite."

Henry G. Sanders as Robert E.

  • (Colleen Cooper) "I'll still can't believe I have a baby sister."
  • (Henry G. Sanders) "Well, she's got your eyes, Sully."
  • (Jim Knobeloch) "Not much hair, though -- considerin' its parents."

Denise Crosby as Isabelle Maynard

  • (Denise Crosby) "I've been through this before. Fear and guilt aren't the best treatments for me."

Shawn Toovey as Brian Cooper

  • (Shawn Toovey) "So why don't ya marry our Ma and be our Pa?"
  • (Colleen Cooper) "Brian."
  • (Joe Lando) "Brian, it's not something you just do. It takes time."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "She's 35. She doesn't have alot of time left."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "You visitin' town?"
  • (Denise Crosby) "Well, I was passing through on the train and I saw this --"
  • (Denise Crosby) "-- and I just had to get out and paint it."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "You mean, you see something you wanna paint -- and you stop everything to do it?"
  • (Denise Crosby) "Yes."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "Colleen, can I ask you somethin'?"
  • (Colleen Cooper) "Sure."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "Say you're a girl --"
  • (Colleen Cooper) "I'll try to imagine that."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "You toss apple peelin's over your shoulder and they spell out the initials of who you're going to marry."
  • (Colleen Cooper) "You oughtta try it, Dr. Mike."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "Bet it'd be a big 'S'."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Brian."
  • (Colleen Cooper) "I'll only be five minutes."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "No, no. I know how long five minutes takes when someone leaves a baby with you."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "I'm running away."
  • (Orson Bean) "From what?"
  • (Shawn Toovey) "Ma said it's somethin' called puberty. I don't wanna catch it."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I know what everyone is saying about me, that I'm an old maid. But I don't need you to contribute."
  • (Colleen Cooper) "That's not what people are sayin'."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "Yeah, no one's said nothin' about the maid part."

Jonelle Allen as Grace

  • (Jonelle Allen) "There's a sayin'; 'The devel you know is better then the devil you don't know'. Well, Hank, you're the devil we know."
  • (Jonelle Allen) "You're still in the honeymoon stage. Enjoy it. 'Cause it ain't gonna last forever."
  • (Barbara Babcock) "I don't think so. I mean, I don't think it has to end."
  • (Helene Udy) "No, but it just gets different, that's all. Sorta gets to be a part of the day's routine, like -- brushing your teeth."
  • (Jonelle Allen) "Oh, no you don't."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "I was just sayin' hello."
  • (Jonelle Allen) "I know you, and you were one step away from namin' that turkey."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "Well, his face does kinda remind me of --"
  • (Jonelle Allen) "Shhh. Don't say it. You name that bird, start makin' friends with it, and there goes my Thanksgiving appetite. That bird's name is 'dinner'."
  • (Jonelle Allen) "Sometimes people disappoint you, and you just have to let it go and love them anyway."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Do you think most women find it agreeable?"
  • (Jonelle Allen) "Sure."
  • (Helene Udy) "If they're in love, they do."
  • (Barbara Babcock) "I think women find it more agreeable then men do. I do. I mean, the men don't wanna know it. It would just vex 'em."

Barbara Babcock as Dorothy Jennings

  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I could use some advice -- from someone who's had experience."
  • (Barbara Babcock) "Oh. Well, don't you worry. It's as easy as falling off a log."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Remember, I've never -- fallen off a log."
  • (Barbara Babcock) "Even if I wasn't your friend, that man has no place in his heart for anyone but you. He's like a needle on a compass that points true north. Don't you know that? -- He's as straight and sure as you are. That's the one way that you're alike, and it's more important than all the little ways that you're different."
  • (Barbara Babcock) "Keeping promises when it's convenient is easy Michaela. But easy don't count for much in life."

Chad Allen as Matthew Cooper

  • (Chad Allen) "Ingrid, will you marry me? Right now. We can do it here. God can be our witness."
  • (Chad Allen) "I think Dr. Mike's in trouble."
  • (Shawn Toovey) "What kinda trouble?"
  • (Chad Allen) "What kinda trouble does she usually get into?"
  • (Johnny Reed) "Look at you. You ain't hardly wet behind the ears. And they think that you can do a man's job today."
  • (Chad Allen) "Watch me, Reed."
  • (Chad Allen) "I'd feel a lot better if I had a deputy, just 'till this is all over. I don't trust many men. I'd ask Sully but I need someone here in town."
  • (Henry G. Sanders) "I'm sorry, Matthew. I can't help you. I ain't sayin' that man in there don't have due what's comin' 'im. Just figure I already seen my fill of hangin's."

Frank Collison as Horace Bing

  • (Frank Collison) "After Dr. Mike has the baby -- are you gonna let 'er keep workin'?"
  • (Frank Collison) "What's so funny?"
  • (Joe Lando) "Let her? Are we talkin' about the same Dr. Mike?"
  • (Frank Collison) "I see your point."

June Carter Cash as Sister Ruth

  • (June Carter Cash) "Kid. Let him go, let it all be over. Then maybe you and I could --"
  • (Johnny Cash) "I just wish you'd get on outta here before you get hurt."
  • (June Carter Cash) "I'd be hurt if you die. I love you, you ole coot."
  • (June Carter Cash) "Wait a minute, don't go. You're always runnin' off somewhere.Please, Stay."
  • (Johnny Cash) "If I stay, I might be tempted to do more than talk."

Georgann Johnson as Elizabeth Quinn

  • (Georgann Johnson) "I will not have a woman of such character in attendance."
  • (Alley Mills) "A woman of such character, mother, is mearly the direct result of the men who exploit her."
  • (Georgann Johnson) "Please don't start that again."
  • (Alley Mills) "Men who share none of the shame and degredation, who insist on enslaving us --"
  • (Georgann Johnson) "All right, all right. Invite her. Just cease with the fanatacism."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Please, mother needs her rest."
  • (Georgann Johnson) "Oh, nonsense. I feel perfectly well."
  • (Edward Albert) "Doctor's orders."
  • (Georgann Johnson) "A nap. But then I'm coming down for supper."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Mother --"
  • (Georgann Johnson) "And that is final."
  • (Edward Albert) "Mother's orders."
  • (Georgann Johnson) "You will wait you turn, young man, and be pleasant doing so."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Why can't you accept me for what I am?"
  • (Georgann Johnson) "And what are you? You're an unmarried woman, trying to raise three children, in a shack, in the middle of nowhere -- and offering your medical services to a bunch of back-woodsman, who pay you in potatoes and in chickens."
  • (Georgann Johnson) "There was no greater moment in my life, then the moment when I gave birth to you."

Andrew Prine as Thaddeus Birch

  • (Andrew Prine) "I had a lady doctor take out my lumbago in St. Louis."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Took it right out, did she?"

Ben Murphy as Ethan Cooper

  • (Colleen Cooper) "I'm not a little girl anymore. I don't need you."
  • (Ben Murphy) "Colleen, you always need your father."
  • (Colleen Cooper) "Father? Sully is my father."
  • (Ben Murphy) "We often see things clearer once we're looking backwards."

Diane Ladd as Charlotte Cooper

  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Pushy? I'm not pushy."
  • (Diane Ladd) "Let's just call it headstrong."

Geoffrey Lower as Rev. Timothy Johnson

  • (Dr. Cassidy) "It's your funeral, Reverend."
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "Yes, it is. And I would like to wait on it."
  • (Johnny Reed) "Come to save my soul?"
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "I suppose that's up to you."
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "I think it's time to set aside our differences."
  • (William Shockley) "Not by my watch."
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "What did I do wrong, Dr. Mike? I only wanted to do the right thing."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I know. They never asked us to share their religion, Reverend. Should we make them share ours?"
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "They don't share our medicine, either, but you help them with it."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "Medicine is different --"
  • (Geoffrey Lower) "How? You took an oath to save lives with your medicine and I took an oath to save souls with my faith."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "I thought our job here was to educate their minds."

Christine Healy as Dr. Miriam Tilson

  • (Christine Healy) "Michaela Quinn of Beacon Hill, out in the barren wilderness, scratching the ears of a wolf."
  • (Dr. Michaela 'Mike' Quinn) "As you said, things change."

Verna Bloom as Paul

  • (Verna Bloom) "Who's up next?"
  • (Colleen Cooper) "Me."
  • (Verna Bloom) "You can't play, you're a girl."
  • (Colleen Cooper) "Then you should have no trouble striking me out."

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