179 Movie Quotes about Children (+ Sound Clips) - page 12

Updated: Feb 11, 2026

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

111 And remember, behave yourselves. Cause Santa can still look into his magic snowball, and see just what you're up to.

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

112 What is a child?

Earl Hammond as Santa Claus in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

113 He wouldn't take up too much space, a child.

Earl Hammond as Santa Claus in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

114 Rich or poor, children are children. And I intend to treat them all the same.

Earl Hammond as Santa Claus in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

115 It's for the children. Won't you reconsider? -Pour les enfants, bambini, kinder, ninos. -For the children. -For the children!

Earl Hammond as Santa Claus in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

116 I have devoted myself to the children. For in all this world, there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

Kris Kringle in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

117 They're all mistakes, children. Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)

118 I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately just to annoy me.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)

119 And I don't think we're paying enough attention to our children! -Dad! -Ben, would you please stop interrupting? We're trying to have a family discussion here.

Martin Short as Martin Harvey in Captain Ron

120 It's like my heart is a tooth, and it's got a cavity that can only be filled with children. I'm sorry.

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me