84 Movie Quotes about Childhood (Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 No, ma'am. I haven't seen my daddy in years. But my mama say he's out racing cars and, well, dipping his wick in anything that moves.

Quote from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

52 Growing up out here, there was _ that can't be learned in no classroom.

Quote from Menace II Society

53 Well, far be it from me to question the teachings of childhood.

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939)

54 Nicky? Have you any pictures of yourself taken as a baby? -No. -Ah, that's a shame. I want to see what you looked like. -Well... I'll have some taken in the morning.

Quote from After the Thin Man (1936)

55 You have the oddest sense of humor. Half the time I don't know whether you're joking or not. Did your mother drop you on your head as a baby? What happened?

Quote from Hercules In New York

56 Heck, Susie, it wasn't all your fault. I mean, with your unhappy childhood in a broken home and everything. No wonder you fell for that crook's phony promises.

Burt Ward as Robin in Batman (1966)

57 They have children's bodies, but with adult minds. They do not have a childhood.

Quote from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

58 My grandmother used to have one of those iron deer on the lawn. Every Halloween we'd paint it another color. One time we painted it black and white like a Holstein cow.

Quote from X Minus One

59 I wasn't a very good mother to you when you were a kid. It was pretty lousy of me, I guess. To be a child at the same time you were.

Anjelica Huston as Lilly Dillon in The Grifters

60 That's when you'll see yourself at last in the pitiless glare of all your poor, frightened childish helplessness.

James Stewart as Dr Philip Martin in Consequence (1949)