80 Movie Quotes about Parenting (+ Sound Clips) - page 8

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.

71 Mother, I say mother's little man. Huh. She's trying to make a pantywaist out of that poor kid.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

72 Come on, son, let's get on with this babysittin' bit.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

73 If you had known my father, you would understand me. He was an absolute ruler. He governed his people with an iron hand, but he gave me a white pony for my fifth birthday.

Claudia Cardinale as Princess Dala in The Pink Panther (1963)

74 Oh, hello, Shorty, what are you doing here? -5 years. -What for? -I forgot what me mother told me. -Should have tied a string around your finger.

Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

75 Do you have kids? -No. -You want mine?

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

76 Don't go rollin' in poison ivy as soon as I leave the house or lock yourself in a closet or do anything that makes you need stitches.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

77 I work and slave for you, and do I get any thanks for it? No, I don't. What do I get? A demolition derby in my living room.

Jon Arbuckle in Garfield on the Town

78 What kind of example are you settin'? Kids see you bringin' women in here. Gamblers comin' in, beatin' on 'em.

Quote from Black Belt Jones (1974)

79 You think you know everything about me, don't you? -I diapered your bottom. I bloody well ought to...Sir!

Kevin Conroy as Alfred The Butler in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

80 Wouldn't you rather play with the children than read hate mail?

Quote from Rocky II