174 Movie Quotes about Children (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

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.

71 Spare the rod, spoil the child.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

72 What is wrong with you? This is a child.

Jeffrey Tambor as Mayor Augustus Maywho in How the Grinch Stole Christmas

73 Excuse me, but we have an impressionable young child here. I think we should make it clear that this place we're talking about is just pretend.

Joey Zimmerman as Dylan Piper in Halloweentown

74 And children may love toys at first, but it's a fickle love that never lasts.

Rick Moranis as Toy Taker in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys

75 You have no family, no children. You can't begin to spend all the money you've got. I suppose I should give it to miserable failures like you and that idiot brother of yours to spend for me.

Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

76 Teaching children the art of death and destruction, the cruelties, the tortures? -Ah, he's gotta know these things exist. Then he can fight against 'em when it's his turn.

Sterling Hayden as Sheriff Tod Shaw in Suddenly (1954)

77 I read about an experiment once. Kept germs away from a kid. Raised him pure and scientifically. First time he got out in the rough, he caught cold and died of pneumonia.

James Gleason as Peter "Pop" Benson in Suddenly (1954)

78 In my country, a child of six years old is older in his heart than you will be at 60.

Peter Lorre in Beat the Devil (1953)

79 I have a sentimental weakness for my children and I spoil them, as you can see. They talk when they should listen.

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

80 Ohhh. This is a nice boy. This is a good boy. This is a mother's angel.

Gene Wilder as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein (1974)

174 Movie Quotes about Children (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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