84 Movie Quotes about Childhood (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

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

11 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

12 Little girls grow up. But they never get through playing with dolls.

Van Heflin as Sam Masterson in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

13 We think our childish toys bring us all the happiness there is and our nursery is the whole wide world. But something... Something must drive us out of the nursery to the world of others, and that something is suffering.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

14 When I was a child, I had a secret fear that night would come, and would never end. That we would live out our lives in total darkness. It was a small fear then.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

15 But when you're an overweight child in a society that demands perfection. Well, your sense of right, wrong fair and unfair will always be tragically skewed.

Mike Myers as Fat Bastard in Austin Powers in Goldmember

16 What is your major malfunction, numb-nuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

17 The leaves were so dark and green then. The grass smelled sweet with the spring wind.

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

18 I wish I could enjoy my first childhood as much as he does his second.

Edgar Bergen as Charlie McCarthy in Fun and Fancy Free

19 Once I strangled two serpents in the cradle.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hercules in Hercules In New York

20 Over at our place we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. We grow up, our personalities change, but in every one of us, something remains of our childhood.

Walt Disney as Himself in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)