92 Movie Quotes about Parenting (+ Sound Clips) - page 7

Updated: Feb 12, 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.

61 What the...? I would have hated to have been his mother.

Kim Morgan Greene as Karen Keeler in Immortal Combat (1994)

62 Babies! You're better off raising tomatoes.

Rhea Perlman as Zinnia Wormwood in Matilda (1996)

63 My school is a model of discipline. Use the rod, beat the child, that's my motto. -Terrific motto.

Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda (1996)

64 If you think watching some rotten TV show is more important than your daughter, then maybe you shouldn't be a parent. Now, why don't you turn that darn thing off and listen to me.

Embeth Davidtz as Miss Honey in Matilda (1996)

65 And I don't think we're paying enough attention to our children! -Dad! -Ben, would you please stop interrupting? We're trying to have a family discussion here.

Martin Short as Martin Harvey in Captain Ron

66 I'm warning you now, boy. Any funny business, any at all... and you won't have any meals for a week. Get in.

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

67 And you know something else, Daddy? Mommy is just so sick and tired of wearing panties. In fact, she's decided to throw them all away.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

68 I'm just your babysitter. So, when you need your diaper changed... Let me know and I'll get you a bottle, okay?

Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark in Iron Man (2008)

69 I have a theory that children imitate what they see on a TV screen. If they see violence, they'll become violent. If they see someone stick up a bank, they'll stick up a bank. Heroin. You name it.

Paul Newman as Reggie "Reg" Dunlop in Slap Shot (1977)

70 Peter, don't pull the cat's tail. You have a cruel streak in you. I don't know where you get it.

Charlie Chaplin as Monsieur Henri Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux