- Dr. Craig Thomas: Don't be crass. Women of your generation think they have to be crass, or no-one would believe their strength, when you're fighting a battle that women of my generation have already fought for you. You should have the grace to appreciate their work and move on to something else.
- Dr. Craig Thomas: Women of your generation are graceless. It's an affront to nature. Mediocre surgeons will see you and feel themselves wilting in your shadow; do not shrink to console them. Do not look for friends here, you won't find them. None of these people have the capacity to understand you - they never will. If you're lucky, one day, when you're old and shrivelled like me, you'll find a young doctor with little regard for anything but their craft; and you'll train them, like I trained you. Until then, read a good book. You have greatness in you Yang - don't disappoint.
- Dr. Craig Thomas: My name will be first.
- Dr. Cristina Yang: Saw that comin' a mile away.
- Dr. Craig Thomas: You will be the surgeon of your generation. I knew it as soon as I met you. People will try to diminish you, as they did me, and they will fail. I would like it be known in the medical community that I helped train you. Hmm?
- [smiles]