196 Movie Quotes about Growing Up (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

Updated: Apr 4, 2026

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

71 You're not pregnant, are you? -Daddy! The way you brought me up?

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allison Capuletti Ocampo; Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti in Easy Money (1983)

72 You're too small. Grow up quicker!

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)

73 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)

74 Every size they get to seems to be the most lovable.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)

75 Kind of a shame kids have to grow up into people.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)

76 Mary, the child's growing up.

Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1953)

77 I'm sorry. I'm going to have to ask you to grow up a little bit sooner than you expected.

William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

78 We don't like beating people, not even kids. We wait until they grow up, then we shoot them.

Wayne From Shottas in Shottas

79 I think these kids are rushin' it a little. -They're in a hurry to grow up. -Well, they won't get it out of a bottle. -They'll know that in the morning.

Roscoe Lee Browne as Jebediah Nightlinger in The Cowboys (1972)

80 You oughta not killed my little brother. He ought to have had a chance to growed up. He would have had fun sometimes.

Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade (1996)