Childhood quotes

“- Mary Anne Meechum: Can you believe dad bought me this dress? He can be so childishly sentimental sometimes. Isn't this ridiculous?
- Ben Meechum: My darling, there's an enormous booger in your nose.”

Lisa Jane Persky - Mary Anne Meechum
Michael O'Keefe - Ben Meechum

“Second star to the right and straight on till morning.”
Bobby Driscoll - Peter Pan

“- Francis MacMillan: Did your husband leave you when you got pregnant?
- Claudia Draper: No, I had an abortion.
- Francis MacMillan: Why?
- Claudia Draper: I don't believe in childhood.”
Robert Webber - Francis MacMillan
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.”
Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly

“Most of us become children again when we enter the slums of Asia. And last night I watched you walk back into childhood. With all its opposite intensities: laughter and misery, the crazy and the grim, toy town and a city of fear.”
Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan

“I used to like to play with my Ken and Barbie dolls. Ken was my favorite. Then one Christmas I got them a camper and all they wanted to do was hang out in it by themselves. So I wasn't too upset when they took that wrong turn and went over the cliff.”
Anna Chlumsky - Vada Sultenfuss

“Here's where we separate the men from the boys.”

John Candy - Buck Russell

“I think your mother reads to you every night in order to stupefy you to sleep. So she and daddy can sit down for three measly minutes without you and your mindless, inexhaustible, unstoppable, repetitive and nagging demands. He took my toy. She hit my bear. I want a potty. I want a cookie. I want to stay up. I want, I want, I want, me, me, me,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Dustin Hoffman - Captain James Hook

“If growing up were so easy, would it take so long?”
Nehemiah Persoff - Papa Mousekiwitz

“Eleven. That's how old I was when I discovered masturbation. Mind you it was another three years before I realized I could do it on my own.”
Ben Silverstone - Steven Carter

“- Sabrina Fairchild: What was Linus like as a boy?
- Fairchild: Shorter. ”
Julia Ormond - Sabrina Fairchild
John Wood - Fairchild

“When we were kids I borrowed some things. It was never ever theft! In each case I either told you... or was about to.”

Chris Eigeman - Fred Boynton

“- Thackery Binx: Elijah! Elijah!
- Thackery Binx: Hast thou seen my sister Emily?
- Elijah: Nay. But look [points to purple smoke in the sky].
- Elijah: They conjure.
- Thackery Binx: Oh, God. The woods!
- Thackery Binx: Emily!
- Elijah: She's done for.
- Thackery Binx: Not yet! You wake my father. Summon the elders. Go!”
Sean Murray - Thackery

“- Danny O'Shea: [Kevin and Danny are racing to claim the new player] This whole town may love you, but I'm the only one who knows how truly sick you are!
- Kevin O'Shea: I treated you like a prince!
- Danny O'Shea: You ignored me!
- Kevin O'Shea: I took you to see the Cleveland Indians!
- Danny O'Shea: You left me at the stadium!”
Rick Moranis - Danny O'Shea
Ed O'Neill - Kevin O'Shea

“- Neal: Charlie, I'm sorry I didn't believe you.
- Charlie: That's okay, Neil. You were just denying your inner child.
- Neal: You're going to make a great psychiatrist someday, kid.
- Charlie: Nah. I think that I'm going to go into the family business.”
Judge Reinhold - Neal
Eric Lloyd - Charlie