Quotes about Goodbyes

Tony Kirby: Well, Dad, if you think it's funny, I'm sorry. I came in here to say goodbye.
Anthony P. Kirby: Goodbye? Are you serious?
Tony Kirby: Yes I'm serous. I don't want any part of this, Dad. I never did.
Anthony P. Kirby: You can't do this -- after all the plans I made for you...
Tony Kirby: Dad, if I can just make you understand this... I think this business is great -- it's good for you because you like it. I don't and I never will. Oh, I... I've tried to talk to you so many times about it, but I... I just couldn't get it out. I... I used to be able to talk to you dad, but lately... (he's at a loss for words) I'll probably be gone before you get home tonight. Goodbye Dad.

- James Stewart (as Tony Kirby) in You Can't Take It With You (1938)

Tony Manetta: Come here son. I think we better talk this over like a couple of men. I'm broke. I lost all the money. I can't even feed you.
Ally: I don't care.
Tony Manetta: But tomorrow we may not even have a place to sleep.
Ally: I don't care WHERE we sleep.
Tony Manetta: Listen, I'm going on the road anyway. You know me, I'm the champ. I bounce back like that! Right? So you go up to New York and live with them and if you don't like it, I'll put you in one of those fancy military schools where you can wear one of those hats with the strap under the chin and look like a big general.
Ally: No Pop -- I don't want to be a general! I want to be with you! You promised! Please Pop, don't send me away. They don't need me. You need me!

- Eddie Hodges (as Alvin 'Ally' Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Tony Manetta: Where'd you get the idea I need you? I need you like I need a hole in the head! How can I operate with you around? I lost Shirl. I lost the hotel. I'm broke only because I had you on my back all the time. That's why. That's why I couldn't operate. So you go in there and pack your clothes. I don't want you around anymore. Did you hear what I said?

- Frank Sinatra (as Tony Manetta) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Marie: Take me in your arms again. Let me have that memory. When I loose heart to go on I shall close my eyes, feel your arms about me. I shall know that I'm in your thoughts, that your loving me...
Count Axel de Fersen: Always, my dear... always.
Marie: ...giving me strength to live... goodbye, my love. (they kiss)

- Norma Shearer (as Marie Antoinette) in Marie Antoinette (1938)

Count Axel de Fersen: When I'm gone you'll be glad that I didn't stand in the path of your destiny making you less than you were meant to be.
Marie: And that other kingdom? The love, the youth, the happiness we might have had... what of that?
Count Axel de Fersen: We shall dream of it more tenderly because we didn't destroy it.

- Tyrone Power (as Count Axel de Fersen) in Marie Antoinette (1938)

George Armstrong Custer: Walking through life with you, ma'am, has been a very gracious thing.

- Errol Flynn (as George Armstrong Custer) in They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

Count Axel de Fersen: I must let you go. Goodbye.
Marie: Good night. Or, if you wish good morning. I shall never say goodbye.

- Norma Shearer (as Marie Antoinette) in Marie Antoinette (1938)

Marie: Shall I never see you again?
Count Axel de Fersen: If you need me I shall come to you.
Marie: (through tears) I shall always need you.
Count Axel de Fersen: And if I should ask you, "Was it well done?", you'll tell me, "It was well done."

- Tyrone Power (as Count Axel de Fersen) in Marie Antoinette (1938)

Lou Gehrig: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Gary Cooper (as Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig) in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Judah Ben-Hur: If you were not a bride, I would kiss you goodbye.
Esther: If I were not a bride, there would be no goodbyes to be said.

- Haya Harareet (as Esther) in Ben-Hur (1959)