Darren McGavin: Captain Grey Holden

Quotes 

• Joshua Walcek : What did you mean when you said, "It had to be here - right on that spot"? It was right in front of the Justice of the Peace/jewelry shop. You haven't got a woman on your mind, have you?

  Captain Grey Holden : A woman?

  Joshua Walcek : Aye.

  Captain Grey Holden : No, not a woman... a lady.

• Captain Grey Holden : Lady, I'm sorry if I appear uncouth to you, but your father was marked down for one of the oldest hoaxes on the river.

  Marian Templeton : Hoaxes?

  Captain Grey Holden : Hoaxes. They make you think your boat isn't coming, so you hire another one too quickly and then it begins. They start charging you for extra for everything - food, fuel, supplies - everything. Before they're through, they've bleed you dry just to keep on schedule.

  Marian Templeton : You saved us from that?

  Captain Grey Holden : I also saved a job for our boat which we need badly. If that makes me a bore, I can't help it.

• Ben Frazer : You're finally going to get married?

  Captain Grey Holden : Yeah.

  Ben Frazer : Well, I hope you're going to be happy, Grey.

  Captain Grey Holden : So do I.

  Ben Frazer : You don't sound so sure.

  Captain Grey Holden : Well, I'm not. But I've never been happier doing something I'm not sure of before.

• Marian Templeton : It's not just our people, it's our future - the future of the whole country. Grey, a few years ago, a party of settlers was crossing the desert. They saw a cloud after a thunderstorm that formed the image of an eagle... and the sun behind it cast the shadow of an eagle all the way to the mountains. Well, they took this as an omen - as a sign that the eagle of this country must spread it's wings all the way to the ocean and that's where Papa must go, and I with him.

  Captain Grey Holden : Well, I can't very well argue with that.