55 Movie Quotes about Growth (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Feb 11, 2026

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

31 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)

32 This is called a metamorphosis. It's a change in form and in appearance.

Zach Galligan as Billy Peltzer in Gremlins

33 I want to build something. Make things grow. That takes hard work. A lifetime of it.

Kevin Kline as Paden in Silverado

34 Don't tell me you've got Billy, because he still eats a grape in four bites.

Jack Palance as Charlie Castle in The Big Knife (1955)

35 And he was already 6 foot 2. I guess it must have been the peanut butter that did it.

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's

36 Look at you, man! Look, you got big, man! Last time I seen you, you was about this tall. They wouldn't even let you on the rides at the amusement park. Had to take you to kiddie land. Remember that?

Shawn Wayans as Ashtray in Don't Be a Menace

37 People change over the years. Ideas warp. Perspectives alter.

Jack Kelly in The Master (1984)

38 It looks so small. -Things always do when you look back, darling.

Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

39 Josh, are you still growing? You look taller than you did at Easter. -I don't think so. -Doesn't he look bigger? -His head does.

Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz in Clueless (1995)

40 If you want to rise, Sextus, do the difficult.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)