- Dan Farrow: [panicky, about to die in the electric chair] How much time have I got, Father?
- Father Edward J. Flanagan: Eternity begins in forty-five minutes, Dan.
- Dan Farrow: What happens then?
- Father Edward J. Flanagan: Oh, a bad minute or two.
- Dan Farrow: And after that?
- Father Edward J. Flanagan: Well, Dan, that's a question that scientists and philosophers have been asking for a million years.
- Father Edward J. Flanagan: 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.
- 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.
- 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!
- Freddie Fuller: On a clear day you can see Omaha from here.
- Whitey Marsh: Yeah? And then what do ya got.