Boys Town 1938 quotes

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Boys Town quotes

Dan Farrow
[panicky, about to die in the electric chair]

How much time have I got, Father?

Eternity begins in forty-five minutes, Dan.

Dan Farrow

What happens then?

Oh, a bad minute or two.

Dan Farrow

And after that?

Well, Dan, that's a question that scientists and philosophers have been asking for a million years.

Freddie Fuller

There's our baseball field... last year one of our players was drafted by the St. Louis Browns.

Whitey Marsh

Well, I like the Yankees.

Freddie Fuller

You would!

Tony Ponessa

If you're a Catholic or a Protestant, you can go right on being one.

Whitey Marsh

Well, I'm nothin'.

Tony Ponessa

Then, you can go right on being nothin', and nobody cares.

I know that a mother can take a whip to the toughest boy in the world, and he forgets it because he knows that she loves him.