Maj. Andy Pepperis: Gambler, gunfighter and now deserter?
Bart Laish: Yeah
Maj. Andy Pepperis: I looks like you added color to the list.

- Carleton Young in Arrow in the Dust (1954)

Maj. Andy Pepperis: It doesn't matter what you've been or what you've done. There must still be some good left in you. Or have you changed so much, Bart?

- Carleton Young in Arrow in the Dust (1954)

Bart Laish: But after your father died, why didn't you go back home?
Christella Burke: Delaware is small. It's crowded with too many memories.

- Coleen Gray in Arrow in the Dust (1954)

Bart Laish: It's clearly common knowledge out here that most Indians do not like to fight at night. An Indian killed at night, they believe, wanders forever in darkness.

- Sterling Hayden in Arrow in the Dust (1954)

[Bart assumes the identity of Major Pepperis]
Christella Burke: We're not moving?
Bart Laish: Yes.
Christella Burke: Tonight?
Bart Laish: Tonight.
Christella Burke: But we can't Major.
Bart Laish: Why not?
Christella Burke: The trip will be too hard on the wounded soldiers.
Bart Laish: Miss Burke, back where I came from there happened to be dead soldiers.

- Sterling Hayden in Arrow in the Dust (1954)