Children quotes

“It's a miracle a child survives here at all. People are so desperate for anything they'll beat a kid bloody if they thought he had five Rand. But if you do run fast enough, if you do survive, you grew up in these streets, these houses. Your parents try, but in the end, you only get the education the white man will give you.”

Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“- Curly: Nobody's asked for me, have they?
- Homer Wells: Nobody special enough, Curly.
- Curly: You mean somebody has?
- Homer Wells: Only the right people can have you.”

Spencer Diamond - Curly
Tobey Maguire - Homer Wells

“- Claudia: Do you ever think what our lives would be like if we had the baby?
- Charlie: Yeah, we'd be miserable.
- Claudia: 'Cause we're just so happy now, huh?
- Charlie: I'm happy. I'm real happy.”
Lauren Holly - Claudia
Edward Burns - Charlie

“- Kalina Oretzia: Who are you to play God?
- Cyrus Kriticos: Playing is for children.”
Embeth Davidtz - Kalina Oretzia
F. Murray Abraham - Cyrus Kriticos

“The kid shouldn't have been smoking in bed!”

Ruth Gordon - Bernice

“You know, people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child.”

Rebecca Romijn - Mystique

“- Harry Lime: Are your parents home?
- Brooke McCallister: Yeah.
- Harry: Do they live here?
- Brooke McCallister: No.
- Harry: No. Why should they? All kids. No parents. Probably a fancy orphanage.”
Joe Pesci - Harry Lime
Anna Slotky - Brooke McCallister

“- Winifred Sanderson: Twist the bones and bend the back.
- Sarah, Mary Sanderson: Itch-it-a-cop-it-a-Mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca.
- Winifred Sanderson: Trim him of his baby fat.
- Sarah, Mary Sanderson: Itch-it-a-cop-it-a-Mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca.
- Winifred Sanderson: Give him fur black as black, just...
- Mary Sanderson: Like...
- Sarah: This!”
Bette Midler - Winifred
Sarah Jessica Parker - Sarah
Kathy Najimy - Mary

Millions of kids see this cartoon, it's like sending each one of them a pack of cigarettes and saying "light up".

Robin Williams - Daniel Hillard

- Luke: These carvings are really creepy. All these fat little cherubs and angels with furry animals, it's really bizarre, I think.
- Eleanor "Nell" Vance: I think they're the children Hugh Crain built the house for.
- Luke: I don't buy that for a second - that Hugh Crain was this lovable old tycoon with a soft spot for kids? This guy was... (continue)(continue reading)

Owen Wilson - Luke Sanderson
Lili Taylor - Nell

“- Rosie Dunlop: You can love 'em, but you can't live their lives.
- Aurora Greenway: Neither can they. Not properly.”

Marion Ross - Rosie Dunlop
Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway

“- Mickey Meyer: That's it! I'm never doing it, nobody's touching mine!
- Barbara: Don't you want to have a baby?
- Mickey Meyer: I'll buy one.”
Ben Terzulli - Mickey Meyer
Sarah Joy Stevenson - Barbara

“Kids aren't any fun! You can't take a kid to a bar. He has one drink, he falls off the stool, and the trip is screwed!”
Burt Reynolds - Nick McKenna

“Who had mama been? What had she wanted to be or do before I was born? Once I was born her hopes turned, and I climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun. Her life had folded into mine. Who would I be when I was 15, 20, 30? Would I be as strong as she had been? As hungry for love? As desperate, determined and ashamed?”
Laura Dern - Narrator

“For years the government has been wisely coercing teenagers to buy products they normally wouldn't want, just to get their money.”
Eugene Levy - Eugene Levy

“- Hood: What we wanna know is are you a brotha or a sista?
- Pat Riley: Well, I'm an only child...”
Bobby McGee - Hood
Julia Sweeney - Pat Riley

“Kids today aren't dumb. They're not gonna buy just anything. That's why the government has been planting small subliminal advertising suggestions in today's rock music.”
Eugene Levy - Eugene Levy

“- Elmer Fishpaw: Come on, Sandra. Get dressed. Let's go to some snazzy cocktail lounge and celebrate my new freedom.
- Sandra Sullivan: But Elmer, what about Dexter and little Lu-Lu?
- Elmer Fishpaw: Those two little bastards are a perfect argument for birth control. Children would get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!”
David Samson - Elmer Fishpaw
Mink Stole - Sandra Sullivan

“- Oliver Lang: They'll pay for their sins. Their lies.
- Michael Faraday: You're killing children! Children die!
- Oliver Lang: Children... I know that. This is war, Michael. In a war, children die.”
Tim Robbins - Oliver Lang
Jeff Bridges - Michael Faraday

“Hey, let's have five. Let's have six. Let's have a dozen and pretend they're donuts!”

Steve Martin - Gil

“Do little girls like caviar?”
Martin Hayter Short - Ned Perry

“- Sulley: Hey, Mike, this might sound crazy but I don't think that kid's dangerous.
- Mike: Really? Well, in that case, let's keep it. I always wanted a pet that could kill me.”
John Goodman - Sullivan
Billy Crystal - Mike

“Oh, my God! It's the devil!”

John Ritter - Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.

“Come on, Micki, just one child. A small one.”
Dudley Moore - Rob Salinger

“- Patrick McMullen: She wants me back.
- Jack McMullen: What about the baby?
- Patrick McMullen: She had a miscarriage.
- Jack McMullen: Jesus, talk about the luck of the Irish.”
Michael McGlone - Patrick McMullen
Jack Mulcahy - Jack McMullen