The Best George Lockwood Quotes

George: When I was nine years old, I chipped my front tooth. But I was in my school play that weekend. I went to tell my mom that... I couldn't do it, and she just smiled at me. She had painted her front tooth black.
[glancing at a picture of Lydia on display]
George: You were always there for me, and I know you always will be. I love you.

Ben: [surprised to see George at the DEO] What are you doing here?
George: You left in the middle of Mother's funeral.
Ben: Yes, and I know. But I had to. You want me to catch your mother's killer, don't you?
George: Of course I do, but you... you left me alone in a church full of people and... I just lost my mother. And I need you.
Ben: I know, but we need justice, son. First your grandfather, now your mother. Everything that I am doing is for their memories.
Cooper: Sir, we found something I think you're gonna wanna see.
Ben: [to George, as he turns to leave] And for you.

George: Turning against each other has only led to more division, more hate, and more violence. There must be a better way.
[he's asked if his perspective has changed because of what happened to Ben]
George: Yes. I've seen firsthand how that kind of anger can tear a family apart. I've lived that heartbreak. And I wanna make sure nobody else has to. If humans and aliens can just listen to each other, then we can stand up, united, against those who seek to divide us.

George: Charlie?
Charlie: George. Please don't take me in.
George: You're an alien? Why didn't you tell me?
Charlie: Why do you think?

Ben: What do you say, son? You want to watch another Senator tell your father how he's doing good work?
George: It's pretty cool.

Peter: Show that speech over and over again like it was the Gettysburg Address. Project Maniac was weeks ago.
Lydia: It's "Myriad".
Peter: Oh, that's right. Project Myriad. Stupid name. And who was responsible? Other roaches from her home planet.
Lydia: Pete, we don't talk like that in this house.
George: No, it-it's fine. I hear it at school sometimes.
Peter: W-w-what's the problem? Just saying that, you know, aliens are resilient like cockroaches. You know, a planet may die, but they survive and infest someone else's.
Ben: Dad!
Peter: What? Supergirl's family invades our planet with the power of gods. And all us little people are just supposed to sit back, relax, and have hope? Is that it? Meanwhile, our president offers them all amnesty? Amnesty. So, you tell me, Georgie, how deep does this conspiracy go?

Peter: Ooh! Look at that. Gin rummy.
George: Okay, I'm a hundred percent sure you're cheating.

Peter: [watching Supergirl on TV] Yeah, sure. We can all leap tall buildings in a single bound. And we can punch him into the middle of next week.
[Ben turns the television off]
Peter: I was watching that.
George: More like hate-watching it.
Ben: George. Uh, dad, I think it's quite enough.

Ben: Don't look so troubled, son.
George: Why not? You're locked up, and you're the only one who's brave enough to stand up for humanity.
Lydia: It isn't right.
Ben: Listen, the movement that was created, I have to believe will create the circumstances of my release.
George: But... I wanna do something for you, now.
Ben: Well, then be a man. A man of action. Be the man that your grandfather wanted me to be, but at your age.

George: [rounding up aliens with his father] They look so human, I... sometimes I forget.
Ben: Yeah. It's a lot easier when there's a snake coming out of the back of their head. We can't humanize them, son. So remember, don't ever mistake them for anything but the roaches that they are.

Ben: I think maybe we should leave.
Lydia: Leave? This is our home.
Ben: Yeah, it is, but it's quickly running out of food and water.
Lydia: There is nowhere for us to go. The Daxamites have set up checkpoints.
Ben: Okay, well, then we drive as far as we can, maybe we can sneak around the checkpoints, get to Coast City, but we have to try something.
Peter: [entering] Try something? Yeah. No, how about we try this? How about we... we stay and we fight for what's ours? This is our home, Ben. We're not refugees.
George: [entering behind Peter] Dad, just wait here. Supergirl will come and save us.
Ben: No. No, she won't, because Supergirl is an alien just like the invaders. And fight, dad? Fight with what? Because all we have is right here, but you know what? That's okay, because we are a family. And we can come together as a family. So, dad, you and Georgie get the bags. Lydia, ready the car. I'll get the supplies.
[seeing his father is reluctant]
Ben: Hey, listen. We can do this.

George: How long do you think it's gonna take them to find Lex Luthor this time?
Ben: Find Lex... oh, no, no, no, put your phone down, son. What we're doing here, this is the real news. We are making history.

Ben: What are you doing home?
Peter: I shut it down.
Ben: Oh, not another blaster.
George: Whole factory.
Ben: What?
Lydia: He went to the bank for the loan. They said no.
Peter: Hell with them and everyone else.
Ben: Oh, god, dad, uh... I am so sorry.
Peter: Spare me. This is what happens when you're too soft, when you don't stand up and fight.
Ben: Fight... dad, fight who?
Peter: You know who.
George: The roaches.
Ben: George!
George: Sorry.

Lydia: I know that crease in your brow. Sweetie, tell me what's wrong.
George: It... it's just, uh... do-do you ever wonder about, um... like... dad's policies? You know, like maybe we're... we're doing this wrong?
Lydia: Of course not, George. Your dad is saving this country. And the raid at the bar didn't go as planned, but you helped smoke those roaches out of their hole, and your father is so proud of you.