“An Unearthly Child” quotes from Doctor Who

Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the Fourth Dimension? Have you? To be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day.

Ian

Let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?

If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

Ian

Just open the doors, Doctor Foreman.

[To himself.] Eh? Doctor who? What's he talking about...?

Susan

[To The Doctor] I know these Earth people better than you, their minds reject things they don't understand.

Ian

You're treating us like children!

The children of my civilization would be insulted!

Ian

Your civilization?

Yes, my civilization. I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it.

They're saying I'm a charlatan.

My father made fire.

They killed him for it. It is better that we live as we have always done.

He showed me how to sharpen the stones and trap the bear and the tiger. He should have shown me this, too.

So that everyone would bow to you as they did to him?

Tell me what my father did to make fire.

I never saw him make it. That is all I know.

Out of my sight, old woman. You should have died with him.

Za will never make fire.

Put on more of the dead fire. (Hur adds ash, and Za rubs the bone between his hands again.)

Ian

Any hope is better than none!

Barbara

You're trying to help!?

Fear makes companions of all of us.

Ian

The whole tribe should be watching. Everyone should know how to make fire.

Everyone cannot be leader.

Ian

No, that's perfectly true. But in our tribe, the firemaker is the least important man.

Ha! I do not believe this.

He is the least important because we can all make fire.