- Title Card: New York's Lower East Side--a melting pot, where the younger generation struggles to free itself from the old-world ideas of its fathers.
- Julius Goldfish - Pa: Mama says that money talks, but I tell her it ain't never said, "Hello, Mr. Goldfish!"
- Birdie Goldfish: We're a couple of Goldfishes, Papa--but we're in the wrong bowl.
- Julius Goldfish - Pa: Nobody ever laughs here--I ain't even heard a smile. My friends I can't visit and Morris won't let them come to see me. Bows I've got to wear to eat supper in, and now he says--no bath--no pants!
- Birdie Goldfish: Go on, Papa, take your bath. Never let anybody say that a Goldfish is afraid of water.
- Morris Goldfish: I see you haven't lost any of your nerve, Eddie Lesser.
- Eddie Lesser: And you haven't lost any of your swell-head, Morris Goldfish.
- Morris Goldfish: Fish is the name. Mr. Fish, to you!
- Tilda Goldfish - Ma: What? You should want to marry such a loafer? What can he do for you? And what do you see in that bum? Can you live in a home like this? With butlers and chauffeurs with maids? With hardwood floors and with Frigidaire!