Blue Lights Quotes

You wanted to tell the truth. I once told you, secrets are a burden. You’re about to find out the truth is the heaviest burden of all.[to to Helen]

You know, eating that every single day’s actually going to kill you.[Tommy Foster]I’m here for a good time, not a long time.[Gerard ‘Gerry’ Cliff]

When we start getting the small things right, they start to affect the big things.

They ask you to do a job, and then 30 years later they want to hang you for doing it.

There’s enough bad things in life that’ll come looking for you. You don’t need to go looking for them.

Society is this big, Olympic-sized swimming pool. But it’s not full of water. It’s full of s***. And we all live underneath it. But unfortunately, the pool’s all cracked and broken and the s*** keeps pouring down. And every time the s*** runs out, I go there with my bucket, I catch the s***, I patch it up with a little bit of masking tape. Hopefully that holds the s*** in for a little while. Then I run on to the next crack with my bucket and catch more s***. And then they pay me at the end of the month. I’m a bucket man.[to Grace]

In life, change is inevitable. But there’s the kind we endure, and there’s the kind we make.

I find England a wee bit like mustard, you know? Best enjoyed in small doses.[to Sandra]

I don’t know what to say, ma’am.[Helen McNally]Well, usually that means you don’t yet know how to say no.[Nicola Robinson]

Grace, you’ve nothing to worry about with Cal. He’s going to have all sorts of troubles in his life – about the colour of his skin, about all sorts of things. You can’t protect him from it all. But he’ll never, ever doubt how much you love him. And that’s all that matters.

Can’t fight shadows. You just can’t.[to Grace]

“They won’t put your rank on your gravestone.”[quoting Gerry]