Pete's Dragon * Quotes

Meacham: "I wasn't going to be done, not yet. I just took out my pocket knife and as the dragon set upon me... [hits his knife in the table] I drove it home."
Grace: "Scaring the kids again, dad?"
Meacham: "No, no, no, I was just giving them a leg up on what's out there in those woods."
Grace: "Well, I'm out in those woods everyday, and while I have seen bears and bobcats and just about every type of bird you can imagine, I have never seen a dragon."
Meacham: "Well just because you don't see something doesn't mean it's not there."
Grace: "And just because you say it's true doesn't mean it is. But I'm headed out there right now and I'll let you all know if I see anything big and green and breathing fire."

"You're very brave, did you know that? You might be the bravest boy I've ever met."

"There's magic in the woods, if you know where to look for it."

"Living out in the woods, doing things his own way. Sounds like a boy after your own heart."
[to Grace]

Natalie: "He looks like a dragon."
Pete: "What's a dragon?"

Grace: "I was out here at the eastern path, but that's..."
Jack: "Fifty miles east."
Grace: "From where we found him."

"My guess he was on a picnic or a camping trip, he wondered off and got himself lost."