181 Movie Quotes about Children (+ Sound Clips) - page 16

Updated: May 6, 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.

151 And you know nothing of children' because there are none among us. -And there will never be. It is so decreed by our laws.

Quote from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

152 Do you have kids? -No. -You want mine?

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

153 I have never been able to understand why small children are so disgusting. They're the bane of my life. They're like insects. They should be got rid of as early as possible.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)

154 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

155 You ought to behave yourself! Acting like poor white-trash children!

Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939)

156 May our children forgive us.

Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore; Thomas J. Whitmore in Independence Day (1996)

157 I want you to get married. I want you to have nine children. And if you only spend five minutes a day with each kid, that's 45 minutes, and I'd at least have time to go out and get a massage or something.

Danny Kaye as Phil Davis in White Christmas (1954)

158 Do me a favor. Tell my children I love them very much.

Randy Quaid as Russell Casse in Independence Day (1996)

159 I read someplace that the surest way to meet the mother is to be kind to the child. -What a horrible trick. -It worked.

John Payne as Fred Gailey in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

160 At heart, they're just little savages. But music, you know, has the charms to sooth the savage breast. And if it has such an influence, and if you can do so much in a few days, I'm thinking...

Quote from Love Affair (1939)