- Debra Barone: Marie, religious scholars spend their entire lives asking this question. You're not just gonna be able to pick up a bible and find the meaning of life.
- Marie Barone: Oh ye of little faith. That's in here too somewhere.
- Frank Barone: You want to know the meaning of life? You're born, you go to school, you go to work, you die. Canole... Marie
- Ray Barone: It turns out that Allie didn't want the sex talk! She asked me why God put us on earth!
- Debra Barone: So, what did you tell her?
- Ray Barone: I told her heaven was too crowded.
- Debra Barone: You what?
- Ray Barone: And then, I faked a cold and got the hell out of there.
- Debra Barone: I don't believe this! You wanted to act like a mature adult! Why didn't you stay and talk to her about it?
- Ray Barone: Because I studied for the sex talk!
- Marie Barone: Ah here it is! "Where there is no oxen, the crib is empty but good harvest comes from the strength of the bull"
- Ray Barone: That's got nothing to do with this!
- Marie Barone: No?
- Ray Barone: [pause] No!
- Marie Barone: Okay.
- Robert Barone: You ever think about space? Is it really endless? if you had a spaceship could you just go on flying forever?
- Frank Barone: Why don't you give it a shot?
- Robert Barone: ...No! I'm not kidding around here! I mean how could space go on forever, and if it doesn't, what's at the end?
- Marie Barone: Stop it Robbie. You'll give yourself a tummy ache.
- Robert Barone: What was at the beginning of time? What was it before time? Nothing? I mean, what is nothing? How could there be nothing? THIS DOESN'T BOTHER ANYONE ELSE?