Andrew Morton: I could still teach you a few, kid. You're just a tin-horned thug and you always will be. You haven't got the guts to be anything else!

- Humphrey Bogart (as Andrew Morton) in Knock on Any Door (1949)

Andrew Morton: If he's innocent, this is the first time.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Andrew Morton) in Knock on Any Door (1949)

Andrew Morton: Until we do away with the type of neighborhood that produced this boy, ten will spring up to take his place, a hundred, a thousand. Until we wipe out the slums and rebuild them, knock on any door and you may find Nick Romano.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Andrew Morton) in Knock on Any Door (1949)

Andrew Morton: You see... in every man's life there are pinpoints of time that govern his destiny.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Andrew Morton) in Knock on Any Door (1949)

Nick Romano: Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.

- John Derek (as Nick Romano) in Knock on Any Door (1949)

Nick Romano: You want to do something for me? Remember me in your prayers.

- John Derek (as Nick Romano) in Knock on Any Door (1949)