Father Edward J. Flanagan Quotes in Boys Town (1938)

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.

Father Edward J. Flanagan: There is no such thing as a bad boy.