Children quotes

“My kids never had the advantage I had. I was born poor.”
Kirk Douglas

“The world don't give a damn about how sensitive these kids are, especially the young black kids. You ain't doin' these kids a favor by patronizing them. You crippling them; you crippling them for life.”
Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone

“- Trunchbull: You have brats yourself?
- Mr. Wormwood: Yeah, I got a boy, Mikey, and one mistake, Matilda.
- Trunchbull: They're all mistakes, children! Filthy, nasty things. Glad I never was one.”
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“I don't think people who have children are acting selfishly or unselfishly.”
Terry Jones

“Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.”
Ray Romano

“- Debbie: If you want, I'll show you me fanny.
- Billy: Nah, I'm all right.”
Nicola Blackwell - Debbie
Jamie Bell - Billy

“- Mack: I didn't raise my boys just to see 'em killed.
- Charley Waite: Well you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.”
Peter MacNeill - Mack
Robert Duvall - Charley Waite

“I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.”
Dean Martin

“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
Jeff Bridges

“When you're a kid, you think that you'll always be... protected, and cared for. Then, one day, you realize that's not true. If you open your eyes, you will see what we're going through. 'Cause when you're alone as a kid, the monsters see you as weaker. You don't even know they're getting closer. Until it's too late.”
Wyatt Oleff - Stanley Uris

“We helped build a school for orphans. They were orphans because the warlord across the border didn't like their tribe. I know that God has a plan for me, I just hope it's to help protect orphans, not make any.”
Chris Klein - 2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan

“If you're not a kid, you're a wizard.”
Ian Hart

“Kids: can't live with them, can't shoot them.”
Burgess Meredith - Grandpa Gustafson

“- Hub: We're old, damnit! Leave us alone!
- Garth: The last thing we need is some little sissy boy hanging around all summer.”
Robert Duvall - Hub
Sir Michael Caine - Garth

“- Joan: Deborah, you work in advertising... a civilized business. I on the other hand work with monsters.
- Debbie: You're talking about 5-year-olds!
- Joan: Right! and my job is to break their spirit. That is what kindergarten is all about. The Germans invented it, think about it.”
Elizabeth Perkins - Joan
Demi Moore - Debbie

“Good job, killer, make the ball fear you.”

Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

“- Dewey Finn: You know what? You don't have to worry about me 'cos i'm tough. If a kid gets outta line, I got no problem, smackin' 'em in the head.
- Rosalie Mullins: No. No, we don't use corporal punishment here.
- Dewey Finn: Okay, so just... verbal abuse?”

Jack Black - Dewey Finn
Joan Cusack - Rosalie Mullins

“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov

“- Coach Herman Boone: Well I'm very happy to have the approval of a 5-years-old.
- Sheryl Yoast: I'm 9 and a half, thank you very much.
- Coach Herman Boone: Why don't you get this little girl, some pretty dolls or something, coach?
- Coach Bill Yoast: I've tried. She loves football.”
Denzel Washington - Coach Herman Boone
Hayden Panettiere - Sheryl Yoast
Will Patton - Coach Bill Yoast

“You know, there are some children who aren't really children at all. They're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart if you touch them. Me and Victor, we were children of flame and ash.”
Evan Adams - Thomas Builds-the-Fire

“Let's put the women and children to bed and go lookin' for fuckin’ dinner!”
Craig Sheffer - Joe Kane

“I can't have a baby because I have a 12:30 lunch meeting.”
Diane Keaton - J.C. Wiatt

“- Cesar Toban: Do you have pictures of your kids?
- Jack Stevens: What?
- Cesar Toban: I need to see them. I'll also need their names and the names of their schools. We are trusting you with millions of dollars of coke, Mr. Stevens. Without your children, there is no deal.”
Dan Ferro - Cesar Toban
Charles Noland - Jack Stevens

“I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.”
Parker Posey - Mary

“The world would be a lot better off without kids.”
Ray Walston - Burton Timmer