Children quotes

“Our society tells us that they're criminals, hoodlums, animals. What I see everyday are confused children trying to find their way through a harsh and unforgiving world.”
Roscoe Orman - Judge

“I knew each child I helped bring into the world was a gift, not from me, but from God.”

Christine Lahti - Gisella Perl

“One day you're changing their diapers, the next they're leaving for college.”
Bill Farmer - Goofy

We'll love him when he's bad, we'll love him even more when he gets worse, then one day he's gonna crack and say, "Hey, these people really do love me! They ain't gonna quit on me! I don't have to be bad anymore. What the hey, I can be President of the United States!".
John Ritter - Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.

“You call this a happy family? Why do we have to have all these kids?”
James Stewart - George Bailey

“- Jack Butler: My brain is like oatmeal. I yelled at Kenny today for coloring outside the lines! Megan and I are starting to watch the same TV shows, and I'm liking them! I'm losing it.
- Caroline: Honey, I know what you're talking about. I've been there myself, alright?
- Jack Butler: Well, if you're so unhappy, why don't you say something...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Keaton - Jack
Teri Garr - Caroline

“- Ouisa Kittredge: Everything is somebody else's.
- Paul: Not your children. Not your life.
- Ouisa Kittredge: No, you got me there. That is mine. That is nobody else's.”
Stockard Channing - Ouisa
Will Smith - Paul

“- Sylvie's Mom: Kids are so adaptable.
- Richard Swersey: They have absolutely no control over their lives.”
Colette Kilroy - Sylvie's Mom
John Hawkes - Richard Swersey

“- Janine Melnitz: You are so great with kids.
- Louis Tully: Oh, thanks, I practiced with my hamster.”
Annie Potts - Janine Melnitz
Rick Moranis - Louis Tully

“Kids, dadblast 'em! They're gonna lead you to ruin. That's what they're gonna do, lead you to ruin. They cry at you when they're young, they yell at you when they're older, they borrow from you when they're middle-aged and they leave you alone to die.”
Ray Walston - Poopdeck Pappy

“- Bors: Dagonet, she wants to get married and give the children names.
- Tristan: Women! The children already have names, don't they?
- Bors: Just Gilly. It's too much trouble so we gave the rest of them numbers.
- Lancelot: That's interesting. I thought you couldn't count.”
Ray Winstone - Bors
Mads Mikkelsen - Tristan
Ioan Gruffudd - Lancelot

“- Kim Obrist: I was scanned. The woman in the waiting room...
- Cameron Vale: She scanned you?
- Kim Obrist: No, not her. Her child. Her unborn child scanned me.
- Cameron Vale: That's what the Ripe program is. The doctors on the computer list are giving ephemerol to their pregnant patients.
- Kim Obrist: I don't understand.
- Cameron Vale:...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jennifer O'Neill - Kim Obrist
Stephen Lack - Cameron Vale

“Ever since I was a little kid, I didn't fit in with most kids at schools. They thought I was strange, so they made me feel like a stranger.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“- Sara Holland: I have never met a kid who didn't dream of being an astronaut when he grew up.
- Hawk Hawkins: Did you ever meet a kid who didn't grow up?”
Marcia Gay Harden - Sara Holland
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins

“- Jim Thorne: What about you?
- Alison Drake: Oh, you didn't know? I'm gonna have nine children.
- Jim Thorne: Is that all?
- Alison Drake: That's all.”
George Brent - Jim Thorne
Ruth Chatterton - Alison Drake

“Why? Why would God choose an obscene child to be His instrument? It was not to be believed! This piece had to be an accident. It had to be!”

F. Murray Abraham - Antonio Salieri

“- Engelberg: [helping Buttermaker clean pools] When we're through, can we go swimming?
- Coach Morris Buttermaker: No! Don't jump in Engleberg, you'll flood the valley.”
Gary Lee Cavagnaro - Engelberg
Walter Matthau - Coach Morris Buttermaker

“Oh God. Women with children. No... it's like a club that I can't get into. It's like that cool group in high school.”
Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn - Gwen Moss

“Mom, is it possible that you're taking the frustration of your failed marriage out on me?This California trip seems like a great learning opportunity and a chance for me to get to know my father. But if you think it's more important to use me to channel your frustration against the man you no longer love, I'll understand.”
Cameron Bright - Joey Naylor

“- Fegan Floop: We have to reprogram them before it's to late.
- Carmen Cortez: And if it is?
- Fegan Floop: Then there's not a soul on Earth who can stop them.”

Alan Cumming - Fegan Floop
Alexa PenaVega - Carmen Cortez

“I have been touched by your kids... and I'm pretty sure that I've touched them.”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn

- Mark's Mom: Mark, what are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to go to that movie - that "Star Track" movie.
- Young Mark: Oh, Mom, how many times do I have to tell you? "Track" is what a train goes on, okay? "Trek" is what the Enterprise goes on, okay?
- Mark's Mom: Yeah, and they say the pain of childbirth ends with labor.
Marilyn Kentz - Gail - Mark's Mom
Ethan Glazer - Young Mark

“- Annie: T.J.'s Timmy, isn't he?
- Billy: T.J. is Timmy. So you figured it out, so what? Even a dumb horse knows her own foal.”
Faye Dunaway - Annie
Jon Voight - Billy

“A child with a stick of chewing gum has just rendered your hundred million dollars of hardware useless.”

Ron Frazier - General Graycliffe

“You know, when you have kids to raise, you yell.”

Jessica Walter - Fern