- Title Card: The crowd laughs with you always... but it will cry with you for only a day.
- Title Card: We do not know how big the crowd is, and what opposition it is... until we get out of step with it.
- John: [laughing at a juggling clown] The poor sap! And I bet his father thought he would be President!
- Jane: [to Bert after passing a diorama depicting Washington crossing the Delaware] Sit down. You don't look historical. You look hysterical.
- John's Boyhood Friend: What are you gonna be when you grow up, Whitey?
- Whitey - John's Black Boyhood Friend: I detend to be a preacher man! Hallelujah!
- John's Nerdy Boyhood Friend: I purpose to seek occupation as a cowboy
- Man on NYC Ferry: You've gotta be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.
- Train Porter: Did I hear you-all speakin' 'bout havin' yo' bed made up?
- Title Card: During the next five years two eventful things happened to the Simses. A baby sister was born... and John received an $8 raise.
- John: [John singing as he sees the El go by] Wife and I are happy - And everything is swell. It's heavenly inside our flat - But outside it is El!