- Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: Boy, if my folks would only let me work. Then I could do all the things I want to do. I could take you dancing, the way you like to go, places you like to go to. You know, they need welders. They need 'em worse than soldiers.
- Sarah Taylor: But your mother wants you to go to school, Frankie.
- Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: Yeah. That's the trouble.
- Fred Hauser: I haven't time now, Frank, but, we'll talk about this tomorrow. I want to know what's behind this truancy.
- Mary Coates: Mom - that's why she's working so hard. So that you can go to college and know things. Oh, Frankie, it would kill her if you quit school just so you could have a good time with a girl.
- Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: That's not the point, Mary. The point is that other fellas will take Sarah out and I can't.
- Mary Coates: Aren't you willing to risk that for Mom's happiness?
- Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: It's her 16th birthday. She' a couple of months older than me; but, you don't think that makes any difference, do you?
- Mary Coates: No, I don't think so.
- Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: So, I want you to understand, there's nothing mushy between us.
- Larry Duncan: I like being a chump sometimes. It's fun. It's a relief from being a wise guy and being with wise guys.
- Sarah Taylor: Lucy's going to be a good girl and go to bed, won't you?
- Lucy Taylor: Uh-huh.
- Sarah Taylor: All right, off to bed.
- Lucy Taylor: Good night.
- Sarah Taylor: Good night. You're a very good girl.
- Nancy Taylor: Well, I'm a good girl too.
- Sarah Taylor: I wonder if Mom will think you're a good girl.
- Nancy Taylor: I am a good girl!
- Judge: You boys are being held on a traffic violation going 50 miles per hour in a 25 mile zone. The arresting officer thought it necessary to make a comment that you were all unusually nervous and acted very strangely when he arrested you.
- Larry Duncan: Sit down. If you don't like it here, we'll go some place else or we'll go home. When your with me, you stay with me.
- Mr. Taylor: You're not turning yellow on me too, are you?
- Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: No. Its just that I don't know why I'm doing this.
- Mr. Taylor: Yeah, well, I'll tell you why. You've got enough of the right stuff inside of you to make a little dough - and to hang onto your girl.
- Sarah Taylor: Frank, you were jealous and so you stole tires. That's silly.
- Frank 'Frankie' Hauser: Dumb.
- Sarah Taylor: I'm happy when I'm with you Frank. I trust you and I'm not afraid of you.
- Danny Coates: I guess there's more to war than fighting. What it does to kids - that's just as much our job.
- Mary Coates: But, they want people to work in defense factories, Danny. They can't work and take care of their kids at the same time.
- Danny Coates: I know. There ought to be something we could do about it.
- Mary Coates: Kids are just the same as they always were. It's the war and these new people. New people from all sorts of places without the slightest notion of how to live decently.
- Toddy Jones: As long as you're going to get bawled out, you might just as well get bawled out for having fun.
- Danny Coates: Look, kid, its too easy to get fresh with me. You know that how fresh you get, I'm not gonna pop you one.
- Judge: Kids may sometimes be guilty of crime; but, its rare when it's their own fault. Neglectful parents, modern life, the breaking up of the home - they got so many reasons for trouble.
- Rocky: Men and women work eagerly to help youth help itself. Our government knows that juvenile citizenship spreads faster than juvenile delinquency.