94 Movie Quotes about Parents (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: May 18, 2025

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

1 Did your parents have any children that lived? I'll bet they regret that.

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

2 It's okay. We barely even knew our parents. They were always away. Skiing in St. Moritz, gambling in Monte Carlo, safariing in darkest Africa. We didn't even know if they loved us.

Kirsten Dunst as Judy Shepherd in Jumanji (1995)

3 You see that moon? You don't know how many nights I spent alone staring at that moon wondering if at that exact moment, my mom or my dad was looking at the same moon. And for that brief second, we were together again, kind of, you know?

David Spade as Joe Dirt in Joe Dirt (2001)

4 They love us. -Yeah, Mom and Dad are pretty cool. -Guys, of course they are. But we can't show it.

Mindy Kaling as Disgust in Inside Out

5 I'm a bad parent. I'm a bad parent. -You're not.

Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister in Home Alone (1990)

6 Mother! Father! You were wrong!

Andrew Tiernan as Ephialtes in 300

7 I've got a special message for you little partners out there. I want you to finish your oatmeal at breakfast and do as your ma and pa tell you, because they know best.

Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy in Bronco Billy

8 You've let this room replace you and your wife in your children's affections. This room is their real father and mother. And now you come along and want to shut it.

Fred Collins as Announcer in X Minus One

9 He's an idiot. Comes from upbringing. His parents are probably idiots, too.

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future

10 That's bad parenting! And I should know!

Garry Marshall as Buck Cluck in Chicken Little

94 Movie Quotes about Parents (+ Sound Clips)

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