Party of Five quotes

Charlie

[singing to his baby] If that mockingbird don't mock, Daddy's gonna buy you an athletic sock.

Daphne

You thought that once Diana was born, that I would just have to look into that tiny little face, with your hazel eyes and my crooked chin, and that would be it, and that we would just live happily ever after. And, you know something, Charlie, deep down inside, I thought the same thing. But that is not happening. Charlie?

Charlie

She's crying.

Daphne

See, I didn't even hear her.

Charlie

You think you're gonna sacrifice your whole education, blow off a whole year's tuition, to come back here and take care of these kids?

Claudia

Yeah, well, it's not like you're doing such a bang-up job without me.

What do you want people to say about you after you're dead and gone? 'That Bailey, he sure was sensible with his money,' or 'Damn, he looked good in that black cashmere suit?'

Claudia

Oh no. No no no, we will not, we will NOT call this off! When this family has the opportunity to sit around a table like we used to once a week? I mean, Christmas Eve, a proper Christmas Eve, means stockings, and a night before Christmas, and a cookie on the hearth for Santa, and we are going to do this one thing right, or just die trying.

Julia

Put down the remote. No more pay-per-view porno 'till we're done.

Ned

It's only soft-core, and we never would have stayed awake last night without it.

Julia

Okay, but I'm about to write Stalin into a three-way, so not now.

Daphne

A person, a parent, who doesn't love their kids, they have kids who grow up the same. And so on, and so on. And that feels bad, mom, to me. That... that feels really really bad.

[to Daphne] I never blamed you for bein' born, so don't blame me for everything that came after.

Charlie

[to Kirsten] You're as free as a bird, but you stay anyway. So the only two people who actually wanna be here, you and Claudia, I'm like pushin' away. And everyone else, people who are supposed to be family, who actually share my daughter's blood, they can't wait to leave. It just makes me think that if you're not family, I don't know who is.

Daphne

Not that there is ever a right time. But is it before her eyes can focus on me? Is it before she can call me mama...? I'm afraid that I'm always gonna be the kind of mom who can and will walk away. And that's not the kind of mom that Diana needs. Diana or you. So the question is not when will I leave. The truth is, I've already left.

Charlie

Daph.

Daphne

Just do one thing for me after I go. Don't let her hate me.

Daphne

[to her daughter] Someday you'll go to New York and Paris, not that I've ever been to either, but you will. And there'll be all these French guys. But you'll know how to take care of yourself. I'm not worried about you at all. And then college is a big thing. And you're gonna be college material -- definitely. And you'll wear one of those business suits and you'll carry one of those, like pocket book/briefcase things that cost like a thousand bucks, and you'll be like a lawyer or something, yeah. And Charlie'll be so proud. Poor Charlie.

Do you think there's more cool stuff like Saturn that we could see?

Bailey

Well, yeah. There's all the other planets. There's Mars and Pluto and Goofy.

Goofy's not a planet. Goofy's a dog.

Bailey

I'm teasing you, pal.

I know. Bailey, when you find out about cool stuff, will you let me know, so we can see it together? It doesn't have to be just planets.

Bailey

I'm makin' a list already.

Sarah

I know you wanna show Owen a good time, but why can't you guys just go and do something that you know something about?

Bailey

Yeah, sure. Hey, O, you wanna go to a restaurant management seminar?

I wanna go camping.

Bailey

He wants to go camping. Even though it's winter, and it's cold, like it's gonna be wherever we go camping. And I know for a fact that the bears are gonna be hibernating and the fish are gonna be frozen into fish sticks in freezers where they belong.

Charlie

I just lost it. 'Cause it, you know, hit me that I'm alone.

Julia

It's OK, Charlie. OK, she's gone. So then now you've gotta think about what's important. Diana is important, and you, your life. Charlie, God, you gotta remember -- you almost weren't here. Be important to yourself, Charlie. 'Cause, I mean, where would we be? And you're not alone. You're never alone, OK?

Sarah

[after being attacked] I look out the window, whether there's locks on them or not... and I don't see the same world anymore.