Childhood quotes

“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don't go on forever. Must have been shattering. Stamped into one's memory.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Rosencrantz

“Stay a child while you can be a child.”
Meryl Streep - Witch

“How was I supposed to know? Locked in the attic, tied to my grandmother. Beaten, beaten, beaten by my drunken father! Of course I'm kidding. Can't you take a joke? Don't you know when a guy's kidding?”
Ronald Francis Perlman - Cliff

“I was raised on a farm in Moooresville, Indiana. My mama died when I was three, my daddy beat the hell out of me cause he didn't know no better way to raise me.”
Johnny Depp - John Dillinger

“- Gordon: Yes, you love the doll. But what if I told you that was the only doll you're allowed to play with the rest of your life. How would you feel?
- Five Year Old Kim: Sad.
- Gordon: You'd feel sad, of course, 'cause there are a lot of other dolls on your shelves. And if you play with the other dolls, you can't have that doll anymore. Even...” (continue)(continue reading)

Colin Quinn - Gordon
Carla Oudin - Five Year Old Kim

“You know why I like to teach children, Jack? So I don't get so wrapped up in being an adult. So I can remember there are other things that are important in life, like riding a bike, playing in a treehouse, splashing in water with your good shoes on.”
Bill Cosby - Lawrence Woodruff

“Nobody finds their soul mate when they're ten. I mean, where's the fun in that, right?”
Josh Lucas - Jake Perry

“- Jerry Conlaine: Come on, Dan. It's like when we'd jump off the railroad bridge into the river when we were kids. That was higher than this.
- Dan Mott: But I never did jump in the river! You guys always pushed me when I wasn't looking!”
Matthew Lillard - Jerry Conlaine
Seth Green - Dan Mott

“There's no greater joy than that seen through the eyes of a child, and there's a little bit of a child in all of us.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney

“There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood.”
Bernard Hill

“- Jensen: Where are you from? Originally?
- Aisha: The wilds of Northern Africa.
- Jensen: Do you have any hobbies?
- Aisha: When I was little, I collected human ears.”
Chris Evans - Jensen
Zoe Saldana - Aisha

“We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects.”
Tim Curry

“I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.”
Christian Slater

“- Joy Smythe: My psychoanalyst told me there ain't any Santa Claus or fairies or giants or anything like that.
- Shirley Blake: I'll bet you'd feel pretty bad tomorrow morning if you woke up and you didn't have any presents.
- Joy Smythe: Well, I won't. Wanna know why? 'Cause I already peeked in the closet and saw 'em.
- Shirley Blake: I don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jane Withers - Joy Smythe
Shirley Temple - Shirley Blake

“My Pops used to always say dreaming is the luxury of children, and that I should enjoy it. And he was right.”
T.I. - Rashad

“- Rusty Duritz: How old are you?
- Russ Duritz: Forty. In a couple days.
- Rusty Duritz: That is old! I'm turning eight. In a couple days.
- Russ Duritz: Eight. You're eight. I'm eight.
- Rusty Duritz: This is scary.
- Russ Duritz: No. This is hilarious.”
Spencer Breslin - Rusty Duritz
Bruce Willis - Russ Duritz

“They say the great thing about being a kid is, it's so easy to pretend. You can have a conversation with your dog or a baseball or a banana. Well, what if wasn't pretend? What if you could have a conversation. I mean, not with a baseball or a banana - that's ridiculous - but with your dog?”

Norm MacDonald - Lucky

- Alex Finch: What was Miranda like at 10?
- Corinne Jeffries: At 10? Precocious. Opinionated. Fiercely independent. She got braces then, which she removed with pliers after wearing them for about an hour. I remember Philip telling her, "All great beauties must suffer and sacrifice".
Robert Downey Jr. - Alex Finch
Cybill Lynne Shepherd - Corinne Jeffries

“Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly, we want to grow up so fast, yet as adults we wish just the opposite?”
Harry Connick Jr. - Narrator

“People like you who try to help have been torturing me, in the full sense of the word, since I was three years old. What did they call it? Oh, yeah. Observed play therapy. Featuring, the marathon 36-hour, can-you-guess-the-next-flash-card game.”
Nicolas Cage - Cris Johnson

“When you go to church that much when you're a kid, you don't really care for church that much. So what you got to do is find little things to like about church, that make you want to go.”
Steve Harvey - Steve Harvey

“- Harry Dunne: Boy, I sure wish I could have been there when she was little.
- Lloyd Christmas: Whatever. That's all water under the fridge now, Har. Think of the bright side. You're finally getting to meet her, and you never had to change those poopy diapers.
- Harry Dunne: That's called being a parent, Lloyd. Besides, I changed your poopy...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas

“Thomas Wolfe once said you can't go home again. Well, that's great for old Tom. But he wasn't a chick who made a pact with her friends when she was twelve to get together whenever any one of them needed each other. So here I am driving back to my childhood home in Indiana a place I can tell you I never wanted to see again.
I guess a promise is a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Demi Moore - Samantha

“- Mathilda: Is life always this hard, or is it just when you're a kid?
- Léon: Always like this.”
Natalie Portman - Mathilda
Jean Reno - Leon

“You do not know how precious your gift is. You're just a kid, you don't know. I do.”

Robin Williams - Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace