Children quotes

“I don't know which frightens me more, that the children are lying or that they are telling the truth.”
Phoebe Nicholls - Polly Wright

“When I was very little, the thing I hated most in all the world was resting. Resting was really just a kind of torture invented for people like me and my sister Brenda.”
Robert Norman - Fraser

The children already feel like little Peruvians. The other day I asked them, "Are you Indians?" "No", they said, "Not we, the ones up the river, they are Indians". And then I asked: "What are Indians?". They said to me "Indians are people who can't read and who don't know how to wash their clothes".

Dieter Milz - Young Missionary

“Real grinders... tougher to close than their parents!”

Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo

“- Sam Callahan: Can I touch her?
- Maurey Pierce: Okay, but be gentle. Babies aren't footballs.
- Sam Callahan: Yeah, they don't travel as far when you kick 'em.”

Bug Hall - Sam Callahan
Mischa Barton - Maurey Pierce

A person with no children says, "Well I just love children", and you say "Why?", and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em, they tell the truth". That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.
Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby

“- John Garrett: What happened around here?
- Wayde McKenzie: A bunch of kids killed all the adults in town. Just your basic Sunday afternoon in the biblebelt.”
Terence Knox - John Garrett
Robert C. Treveiler - Wayde McKenzie

“All these kids, they're all tv babies. Watching people killing and fucking each other on the boob tube for so long it's all they know. Hell, they think it's legal. They think it's the right thing to do.”
Matt Dillon - Bob

“This orphan stuff is like growing up in a dog pound. Everybody wants puppies.”
Mary-Kate Olsen - Amanda Lemmon

- Lt. Sam Weinberg: You've heard her. The girl sat here, pointed and said, "Pa". She did. She said, "Pa".
- Lt. Daniel Kaffee: She was pointing at a mailbox, Sam.
- Lt. Sam Weinberg: That's right. She was pointing as if to say, "Pa, look, a mailbox".

Kevin Pollak - Lt. Sam Weinberg
Tom Cruise - Lt. Daniel Kaffee

“- Doris: Do you have any pictures?
- George Peters: What?
- Doris: Pictures of your kids.
- George Peters: Well, yeah, but I don't think this the the time or place...
- Doris: Come on, come on. If you show me yours I will show you mine.”
Ellen Burstyn - Doris
Alan Alda - George Peters

“- Woody: That is Sid.
- Buzz: You mean that happy child?
- Mr. Potato Head: That ain't no happy child!
- Rex: He tortures toys - just for fun!”

Tom Hanks - Woody
Tim Allen - Buzz Lightyear
Don Rickles - Mr. Potato Head
Wallace Shawn - Rex

“In my experience, parents often see their children as they want them to be, not as they are.”
Peter Stormare - Dr. Solomon Eddie

“- Peter Banning: I remember you being a lot bigger.
- Captain Hook: To a ten year-old I'm huge.”
Robin Williams - Peter Banning
Dustin Hoffman - Peter Banning

“If someone told you your child had died and wouldn't tell you how he died or where the body was buried, wouldn't you be upset?”
Donald Sutherland - Ben

“- Sonny Koufax: I'm thinkin' about keepin' the kid.
- Phil D'Amato: Sonny, remember that time you went with me to the pet store to get fish food and you saw that cute little puppy and you wanted to get it, but then I reminded you about feeding it and cleaning it and toilet-training it?
- Sonny Koufax: Yeah...
- Phil D'Amato: Well, this is kinda...” (continue)(continue reading)

Adam Sandler - Sonny Koufax
Allen Covert - Phil D'Amato

“- Hank: You had enough? You've learned your lesson about jumping rope in the street and using dirty language?
- Jump Rope Girl: I'm gonna tell my daddy on you, Charlie!
- Hank: Wrong answer! And the name's Hank, fuckface. Learn it!”

Jim Carrey - Hank
Heather Hodder - Jump Rope Girl

“There are boys in this class who will never know sanctifying grace. And why? Because of greed. Those greedy little blackguards are talking even now, about the money they'll get from the collection. They'll go from house to house in their little suits like beggars. And will they take any of that money and send it to the the poor black babies in...” (continue)(continue reading)

“Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, upon which the entire kid year revolved.”
Jean Shepherd - Ralphie as an Adult

“- Nancy Thompson: Mother! What's with the bars?
- Marge Thompson: Security.
- Nancy Thompson: Security? Security from what?
- Marge Thompson: Not from what - from whom. Come down to the cellar. You wanna know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighborhood... kids we all knew.”
Heather Langenkamp - Nancy Thompson
Ronee Blakley - Marge Thompson

“- Michael Cromwell: You sound like an idiot.
- Richard Kempster: I'm a parent! Therefore, I'm an idiot! I have spent every day for the last 12 years worrying about my kids. About their safety, about their happiness, about their crooked teeth.”

Tim Allen - Michael Cromwell
Martin Hayter Short - Richard Kempster

“- Old Lady: What adorable children.
- Daniel: You want'em? 'Cause I'll sell them to you real cheap.”
David Paymer - Daniel Miller

“We were in a Biblical frame of mind on the twenty-third of May 1943, at the Berghof. He had denied himself children because he knew that no son could flourish in the shadow of so godlike a father! But when he heard what was theoretically possible, that I could create one day not his son, not even a carbon-copy but another original, he was...” (continue)(continue reading)

Gregory Peck - Dr. Josef Mengele

- Jenna Reed: I've been the director of the "Dream Come True" foundations since October.
- Joe Cooper: The ones that grant wishes to sick a dying kids, right?
- Jenna Reed: Oh, well we like to think of them as health challenged and survival impaired.
Yasmine Bleeth - Jenna Reed
Trey Parker

“I told her that she wasn't dying, just returning to the Earth's spirit. To Gaia. She... told me that she was ready to die. She said I didn't have to make up stories to make her feel better. Only seven years old and ready to die.”

Ming-Na Wen - Doctor Aki Ross