85 Movie Quotes about Childhood (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about childhood, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 You're right, Prospector. I can't stop Andy from growing up. But I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Tom Hanks as Sheriff Woody in Toy Story 2

2 Conan, what is best in life? -To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan The Barbarian in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

3 Though childhood slips like sand through a sieve.

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins

4 Dad gave me this. Fifth birthday. He said childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die.

Michael Wincott as Top Dollar in The Crow (1994)

5 When I was 6 years old, my father said to me... -Get out.

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor in Superman (1978)

6 My poor little sister should be out trick-or-treating. But look at her. You've kept her from a normal childhood and it's turned her into a wall ornament!

Kimberly J. Brown as Marnie Piper in Halloweentown

7 Talk about your childhood wishes.

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

8 I miss the Shire. I spent all my childhood pretending I was off somewhere else. Off with you, on one of your adventures.

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

9 It's something that stems from my childhood. I just gotta play against the house.

George Peppard as Col. John Hannibal Smith in The A-Team

10 Because when you read a book as a child, it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

85 Movie Quotes about Childhood (+ Sound Clips)

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