84 Movie Quotes about Childhood (Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 You know, it's kinda tough... growin' up in the hood without a positive male role model to look up to.

Shawn Wayans as Ashtray in Don't Be a Menace

32 You know, when I was a kid food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil, decimated plant and animal life.

Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth in Soylent Green

33 I have no family. When I was a child they were gassed to death in the Dachau concentration camp.

Quote from X Minus One

34 I had a perfectly normal childhood. -I see. You wanted to kill your father and sleep with your mother.

Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams in The Front Page (1974)

35 Yes. Seems a long time ago, doesn't it? -A long time ago. All the way between childhood and being grown up.

Laurence Olivier as Narrator in The Snow Goose (1954)

36 I used to be scared of breaking the rules, too, of getting caught. But I always felt better afterwards. -After you were caught? -Mm-hmm. See, the people I didn't think would understand, well, they always did understand.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

37 You know, when I was a kid, just about your age, I used to think the whole world would come crashing down on me because of something I did, so I'd make believe it didn't happen, so people wouldn't get angry with me.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

38 When I was a kid, I read a book about the world coming to an end. I remember being so scared, I didn't dare go to sleep. And in the morning, the sun came out, and everything looked so wonderful, I forgot the story. Life was beautiful all over again.

Quote from When Worlds Collide (1951)

39 And Daddy's so good, he gets $500 an hour to fight with people. He fights with me for free because I'm his daughter.

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

40 There must be somethin' around here that a destructive little kid like me could enjoy. I'd better have a look around.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts