All My Sons Quote Identification Quiz

“You can be better! I’m his son, I’m his brother, I’m everything he ever did.”

“The man who makes the world a safer place for us—how can I take it away from him?”

“I’m taking him to the police.”

“The wind blew it down last night.”

“I’m his father and he’s my son, and if there’s something bigger than that I’ll put a bullet in my head.”

“You made me practical.”

“You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside, and you’re responsible to it.”

“She’s not getting married today, Joe. You’ll come with me.”

“Larry was your son too, Joe. You know he was, don’t you? He was, and you killed him.”

“We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honour was real there, you couldn’t touch a man for that.”

“The whole neighborhood’s talking about your family again.”

“I don’t know how to tell you what I feel—you understand? You’re not even a human being to me.”

“He’d never be satisfied with that kind of thing. He’s happy right where he is, with his rats.”

“For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!”

“Everybody was in such a hurry to bury him. I said not to plant that tree.”

“He was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons.”

“I know he’s dead. I know! My God, I know!”

“I read about you in the papers, Joe. You and Dad.”

“I’m not through yet. I’m not through.”

“If Larry’s dead, your father killed him.”

“I can’t bear to think of you waiting for him.”

“He hasn’t been laid up in fifteen years.”

“I want peace, that’s all I want.”

“They were all my sons.”

“You’re not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you?”

“I was dying every day and you were killing my boys.”

“You’re a boy, what could I do! I’m in business!”

“I want to live. I mean it, Joe.”

“The night he died, I read his letter.”

“I’m in business. A man is in business; a hundred and twenty cracked, you’re out of business.”