Anthony P. Kirby: So you're the one that's been holding up my deal, eh?
Grandpa Vanderhoff: It's kind of funny, isn't it?
Anthony P. Kirby: What's funny about it?
Grandpa Vanderhoff: Well, the idea of your engineering this whole thing and being caught in your own trap.
Anthony P. Kirby: Maybe it won't be so funny when I take that house away from you.

Tony Kirby: I was just thinking about that family of yours. Living with them must be like living in a world of Walt Disney. Everybody does just as he pleases, doesn't he?
Alice Sycamore: Yes, Grandpa started it. He just suddenly left business one day. He started up in the elevator, turned around and came right down again -- and never went back. He could have been a rich man, but said he wasn't having any fun.

Tony Kirby: That family of yours, boy, they knock me for a loop. I don't know, it... it just seemed like, in their own way, they've found what everybody's looking for. I mean, people spend their whole lives building castles in the air and then nothing ever comes of it. I wonder why that is. Well it takes courage Everybody's afraid to live.
Alice Sycamore: You ought to hear Grandpa on that subject. You know he says most people nowadays are run by fear. Fear of what they eat, fear of what they drink, fear of their jobs, their future, fear of their health. They're scared to save money, and they're scared to spend it. You know what his pet aversion is? The people who commercialize on fear, you know they scare you to death so they can sell you something you don't need.

Tony Kirby: Well, Dad, if you think it's funny, I'm sorry. I came in here to say goodbye.
Anthony P. Kirby: Goodbye? Are you serious?
Tony Kirby: Yes I'm serous. I don't want any part of this, Dad. I never did.
Anthony P. Kirby: You can't do this -- after all the plans I made for you...
Tony Kirby: Dad, if I can just make you understand this... I think this business is great -- it's good for you because you like it. I don't and I never will. Oh, I... I've tried to talk to you so many times about it, but I... I just couldn't get it out. I... I used to be able to talk to you dad, but lately... (he's at a loss for words) I'll probably be gone before you get home tonight. Goodbye Dad.

Tony Kirby: Well, he's married, wife just had a baby, didn't think it was fair to gamble with the future. Anyway that's his excuse for lack of courage. I know, say it -- what's my excuse? Well, the Kirbys have been bankers for 9,000 years or something, and that line just can't be broken -- and that's been pounded into my head until I had softening in the brain. That's my excuse.

Grandpa Vanderhoff: What do you mean fooling around with all these dull figures? Seems to me Mr. uh, Poppins... seems to me, Mr. Poppins, that THIS is the kind of work you ought to be doing (inventing things).

Grandpa Vanderhoff: (saying grace) Well, Sir, here we are again. We've been getting along pretty good for quite a while now - we're certainly much obliged. Remember all we ask is just to go along the way we are, keep our health; as far as anything else is concerned, we leave that up to you. Thank you.

Grandpa Vanderhoff: (talking about his wife, Alice's grandma) Oh, nothing phenominal about it. I just had it bad, that's all. I never got over it either. Right up to the very last, she couldn't walk into a room without my heart going thump, thump, thump.

Grandpa Vanderhoff: Can't even talk about him, can you?
Alice Sycamore: Not rationally.
Grandpa Vanderhoff: Well, who's asking you to be rational?

Grandpa Vanderhoff: I used to be just like you. Then one morning when I was going up in the elevator, it struck me I wasn't having any fun. So I came right down and never went back. That was 35 years ago.
Anthony P. Kirby: Admirable. And you haven't done anything since huh.
Grandpa Vanderhoff: Oh yes, yes, yes... Oh just the things I wanted to do... collected stamps, went to the zoo when I got the notion, took up the harmonica, and even found time to notice when spring came around.