- Narrator: [a narration that John Boy Walton, Jr. is reading, from his journal] Most of us tend to be convinced of the rightness of our heritage, our traditions, our way of life, until some event happens that shakes our deepest beliefs to their foundations. On a day in 1939, two strangers came to our mountain. As a consequence of their visit we were to learn that others had roots there which reached deeper than our own.
- Grandfather Joseph Teskigi: Slow down, young man.
- The Grandfather: [chuckling] Been a long time since anybody said anything like that to me.
- Grandfather Joseph Teskigi: I'm old enough to be your father. Have a little respect for age.
- The Grandfather: Yes, sir.