Jake Mosby Quotes in October Sky (1999)

Jake Mosby: Buck up, Homer. You're a Coalwood boy! You get down there, get that shovel in your hands, coaldust on your neck, feel just as natural as a tick on a dog.

John: [after a cave in] Come on. Come on, Jensen. Come on back.

Jensen: What happened?

Jake Mosby: Whole damn mountain about fell on your head. And John here, he saved your life.

Homer: That's my dad.

John: I want you out of this mine, and don't you ever come back, you stupid son of a bitch. Didn't I tell you to watch those pillars? Now we coulda all been killed today, because you didn't have the sense to look up!

Homer: [ashamed] That's my dad.