187 Movie Quotes about Growing Up (Sound Clips) - page 9

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

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

81 That's all right when you're a kid, because, well, every kid has the right to be a kid, but not tonight. Not tonight. Tonight, you've got to be a grown-up.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

82 Sixteen, already? -Yeah, they don't stand still like we do.

Harry Belafonte as Johnny Ingram in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

83 You sit around watching me like I was a 10-year-old kid. -How old do you think you are?

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)

84 Well, Henery, you're a big boy now. We'd better have a little talk. -Okay, Pop. What do you wanna know?

Quote from Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

85 Now you're down again. You gotta learn to stand on your own feet, boy. I may not always be around to help you.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

86 He's a boy. -Boys have the darnedest way of growing up. Almost when you're not looking. -But I'll be looking.

Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson in Gilda (1946)

87 Seymour's too young to get married! Look here. A boy's got to go and play around a little bit. Go out on the makin'. Have a ball.

Quote from The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

88 My son and my daughter. I don't recognize you. What's happened? -Just a few years of normal growth. Don't you approve? -I don't know yet. I've gotta have more time to get to know you.

Quote from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

89 She told me that when you were a little boy, if you didn't get your own way, you used to lie on the floor, kick and get red in the face. -What did you say? -I said you didn't do that anymore. Now if you don't get your own way, you just get embarrassed.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

90 Andy's growing up, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Quote from Toy Story 2