52 Movie Quotes about Orphans (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 22, 2025

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

1 Even meaner? You mean it? Worse than the widows and orphans you drowned?

Barrie Ingham as Basil The Mouse Detective in The Great Mouse Detective

2 When I heard him screaming I fainted dead away and I woke up an orphan... Oy vey.

Phillip Glasser as Fievel Mousekewitz in An American Tail

3 What's the matter with you? What am I gonna do? Am I gonna make that baby an orphan before he's born? All right?

James Caan as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

4 You ought to be ashamed of yourselves. A bunch of big guys like you, picking on a poor little orphan like him.

Edward Brophy as Timothy Q. Mouse in Dumbo (1941)

5 Maybe they have no mother. Then they're orphans. That's too bad.

Adriana Caselotti as Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

6 'It is a Comanche law that no chief ever eats unless first he sees that the pots are full of meat in the lodges of the widows and orphans.'

John Wayne as George Washington McLintock in McLintock! (1963)

7 You're an orphan, right? Do you think I'd know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you?

Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting

8 All kids, no parents. Probably a fancy orphanage.

Joe Pesci as Harry in Home Alone (1990)

9 'This that the White Man calls charity is a fine thing for widows and orphans, but no warrior can accept it, for if he does, he is no longer a man and when he is no longer a man, he is nothing and better off dead.'