90 Movie Quotes about Childhood (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: Dec 31, 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.

71 Leave a place when you're a kid, maybe 17, 18 years ago, and you forget all about it. Then, all of a sudden, you're driving along, and smacko, your own hometown up and hits you right in the face.

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

72 Mother left when I was a baby, and my father probably drank himself to death by now.

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

73 Where I'm from, you wouldn't think of suing humans. We were thinking more like stickball, candy stores.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

74 This reminds me of the time I attempted to reach the center of the Earth. I'd been reading my favorite author, Jules Verne. I spent weeks preparing that expedition. I didn't even get this far. Of course, I was only 12 at the time.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

75 You know, it was the writings of Jules Verne that had a profound effect on my life. It was when I was 11 that I first read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was then that I realized that I must devote my life to science.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

76 I think it all began when Father refused to take me to the circus. I was a fragile child of 6.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

77 My brother was a child once, Rupert. And, as unlikely as it may seem, so was I.

Anthony Hopkins as C. S. Lewis in Shadowlands

78 You mean Santa was once a baby? -Of course! Everybody's got to be a baby at least once in their lives.

Fred Astaire as S.D. Kluger in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)

79 The roof where we used to stand and throw pebbles at the people in the street and then hide.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

80 That's quite a doll. -That was Julia's. -Yeah? -She loved it. My, how she loved it. -Looks like her.

Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton; Cary Grant as Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)

90 Movie Quotes about Childhood (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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