The Blue Veil (1951)

Everett Sloane: District Attorney

Quotes 

• Louise Mason : I don't want anything .I... Are you going to let them take Tony away from me?

  District Attorney : Much as I regret to say it, the law doesn't allow that he be left with you.

  Louise Mason : She's never been a mother to him. Giving birth to a child doesn't make a mother. What about the thousand and million things that she doesn't know; that she'll never know about him? What does she know about the things that frighten him? Or how to comfort him when he wakes up in the night crying? All the little things about him. What if I had neglected him? And suppose there hadn't been a savings to see him through? Suppose that I, I hadn't worried about his measles and his whooping cough and pneumonia? What does she know about getting on her knees and praying to God to take her life instead of his? Now, what if there had been no love all this time? No love! Do you know what that means?

  District Attorney : Yes, I think I do.

  [he turns on the intercom] 

  District Attorney : Bring the boy back in, please.