The beginning of "Forrest Gump"

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Please study this dialogue from the beginning of "Forrest Gump."

F: Do you want a chocolate?
My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.

F: Those must be comfortable shoes.
I'll bet you could walk all day in shoes like that and not feel a thing.
I wish I had shoes like that.
L: My feet hurt.
F: Mama always said there's an awful lot you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been. I've worn lot's of shoes.

M: What are y'all staring at? Haven't you ever seen a little boy with braces on his legs before?
Don't ever let anybody tell you they're better than you, Forrest.
If God intended everybody to be the same, he'd have given us all braces on our legs.
F: Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.

F: You know, it's funny how you remember some things but some things you can't.
M: You do your very best now, Forrest.
F: I sure will, Mama!
F: I remember the bus ride on the first day of school very well.

B: You can't sit here.
F: You know it's funny what a young man recollects, 'cause I don't remember being born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic, but I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.
J: You can sit here if you want.
F: I had never see anything so beautiful in my life. She was like an angel.
J: Well, are you going to sit down or aren't you?