80 Movie Quotes about Parenting (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

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

41 How many of you all want to be like me one day? Okay, then. Obey your mother and fathers. Get your schoolwork. Don't drink. Don't smoke. Stay out of bad gangs. You hear me?

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

42 Don't arrest those children. It was my fault. I gave them the toys.

Mickey Rooney as Kris Kringle in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)

43 I have devoted myself to the children. For in all this world, there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

Kris Kringle in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985)

44 I read an article about this. All children are hideous at the age of eight. It's quite normal.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

45 Oh, my son. My son! What have they done with you? I've failed him as a father!

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

46 Uh, Papa? -Not now, son. I'm busy bein' worried about ya.

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

47 Hoo, losing our way is, I fear, the consequence of misleading our appointed guardian.

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

48 Heavens to papa. I'm apparently a parent.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

49 What do you think of the children? -The children? I don't recognize them. They've grown so old. -I tried to stop them, to keep them just as they were when you left, but they got away from me.

Quote from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

50 Oh, my dear. Don't look now, dear husband, but our son is missing again. -So he is.

June Foray in Thumbelina (1994)