95 Movie Quotes about Childhood (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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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.

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 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)

14 She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her over the TV set.

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

15 Mama. -What? You want your mommy back? She never loved you. Don't be such a baby!

Ned Beatty as Lotso in Toy Story 3

16 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

17 A kid should be free. Free to run wild through the house on Saturday mornings. Free to have cookies and milk, and get those little white mustaches, you know, with the...

John Candy as Wilbur The Albatross in The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

18 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

19 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)

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

Edgar Bergen as Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd; Charlie Mccarthy in Fun and Fancy Free