97 Movie Quotes about Parenting (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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

1 Keep these creatures occupied for the next hour. Take them for a walk. Anything!

Rabbit From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 My father's too distracted by his bald spot to do anything.

Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)

3 Uh-uh-uh! Escaping from your bedroom again?

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 You didn't leave the girl down in the cave long enough.

Geraldine Page; Geraldine Page as Madame Medusa in The Rescuers (1977)

5 You don't have a way with children. You must gain their confidence, make them like you. -Yeah? How do you do that? -You force them to like you, idiot!

Geraldine Page as Madame Medusa; Geraldine Page in The Rescuers (1977)

6 I, who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you. I, who look upon you without fear.

Tom Hulce as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

7 Tommy's a bad kid, a bad seed. What am I supposed to do? Shoot him? -That wouldn't be a bad idea.

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas

8 Suffering succotash. I'm a mother.

Sylvester The Cat in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

9 And Son, don't never, ever trust whitey.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

10 Why do they call it babysitting? We're not babies. -It is most patronizing.

Roo From Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh