All My Sons : Quotes
"Well a favourable day for a person is a fortunate day, according to his stars. In other words, it would be practically impossible for him to have died on his favourable day!".
"It's so strange, Annie's here and not even married. And I've got three babies. I always thought it'd be the other way round".
"She was out here when it broke. / When? / About four this morning. I heard it cracking and I woke up and looked out. She was standing right here when it cracked."
"The trouble is, you don't see enough women. You never did. / So what? I'm not fast with women. / I don't see why it has to be Annie. / Because it is."
"But I'll always love that girl. She's one that didn't jump into bed with somebody else as soon as it happened with her fella."
"See? We should've never planted that tree. I said so in the first place; it was too soon to plant a tree for him. / Too soon! / We rushed into it..."
"I've only met you, Ann, but if I may offer you a piece of advice- When you marry, never- even in your mind- never count your husband's money."
"It's wrong to pity a man like that (about Steve). Father or no father, there's only one way to look at him. He knowingly shipped out parts that would crash an airplane. And how do you know Larry wasn't one of them?".
"The man was a fool but don't make a murderer out of him".
"I don't know. I think its mostly that whenever I need somebody to tell me the truth, I've always thought of Chris...he relaxes me".
"The man (Joe) is innocent, Ann. Remember he was falsely accused one and it put him through hell".
"The court didn't know your father! But you know him. You know in your heart Joe did it".
"Joe, Joe... it don't excuse that you did it for the family."
"To his dying day he’ll wait for his brother!"
"If you can’t get used to it [the Keller family money], then throw it away. You hear me? Take every cent and give it to charity, throw it in the sewer. Does that settle it?"
“There’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it”.
“Certain things have to be. Certain things will never be”.
“I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were”.
“You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside, and you’re responsible to it!”.