- Mature Jenny: [narrating] I saw a thousand dawns when I was working in the East End. A thousand fresh beginnings. Every day a world made new. There were challenges and changes but always the sense of life forging forward, pulsing like the River Thames itself.
- Chummy Noakes: I can see baby's head.
- Mrs. Torpy: Are you sure?
- Chummy Noakes: It's the least mistakable sight in the world. And the most miraculous.
- Mature Jenny: [narrating]
- [about Cystic Fibrosis]
- Mature Jenny: Knowledge is a seed that can take centuries to blossom. Understanding has grown, and the children's chances with it. Lessons unfold everywhere.