- Jethro Bodine: Uncle Jed, couldn't we talk about this some other time when I ain't starvin'?
- Jed Clampett: There ain't that much time in life, boy.
- Daisy Moses: With Jethro here, every meal time was a kind of a test for myself to see if I could cook enough to fill that bottomless pit of his. I never made it, but it was always somethin' to shoot fer.