Jamie: You know what me and 99% of other cops are not that you are?
Tariq: Yeah, stuck.
Jamie: No, indispensable. Before you chuck it, at least put some value on it.
Tariq: Now you're sounding like a boss. and I don’t mean that as a compliment.

Embrace the pain.

Henry

Anthony: I know him.
Erin: You don't. Nobody knows anybody, Anthony. That's the one thing we all come to learn in this business.
Anthony: He's a stand up guy, Erin.
Erin: Well, he wouldn't be the first stand up guy to fall down.

If you aren't failing, you aren't trying, and if you aren't trying, you aren't really living.

Jamie

Sean: Can't we just be like a normal family and you guys just ask us about school or something?
Jack: Or talk about the good things that happened this week?
Danny: It's tradition.
Jamie: Because there's almost nothing to learn from success. Failure, on the other hand, is the best teacher you'll ever have.

"By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life, but a life is never wisely given to save a limb," Abraham Lincoln. This department is the life, Officer Whitman is a limb.

Frank

Sid: She went by the book, and we're trained that book's the bible.
Garrett: And like the bible, the wrong translation can cause more harm than good.

The one thing I've learned is that life is beautiful, and it's sad but sometimes it's just practical. Money counts.

Danny

Somehow, where the job used to seem noble, as a single parent now, it just kind of seems selfish.

Danny

You do realize I used to be in a two income household, now it's only one, and I used to have a partner and now I'm the only parent. I've gotta still raise these two boys.

Danny

Chavez: Prison is the only thing that can save Jo-Jo. But Theresa, she’s a good kid.
Danny: She’s a good kid who could have got you killed. Don’t you think she should pay for that?
Chavez: I’m a teacher, Detective. Retribution is your department, not mine.

Principal: This is my fault.
Danny: It’s not your fault.
Principal: It is my responsibility to keep my staff safe.
Danny: There was nothing you could have done!
Principal: Then why am I here?

Blue Bloods Season 8 Quotes

That's all you’ve got? I don't think the mayor likes me? Who the hell do you think you're talking to here?

Abigail

Erin: Who would want to kill Jack?
Danny: It's Jack, the list of possible suspects is endless. He's been a prosecutor and a defense attorney. He deals with a lot of bad people.