Children quotes

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

“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

“- 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

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

“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

“- 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

“- 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

“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

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

“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

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

“There's one thing every little kid knows: Daddies mean fun; mommies mean business.”
Marcia Strassman - Diane

“There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.”
Annette Bening

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

“The thing is, when you have a child with someone, like it or not, you're going to have to have a continuing relationship with them.”
Lesley Manville

“Allow children to be different.”
Bo Svenson

“Being there for a child is the most noble thing a toy can do.”
Tom Hanks - Woody

“- Katherine Newbury: I can’t give you a raise, Gabe. It’s like giving a raise to a drug addict.
- Gabe Eichler: What?
- Katherine Newbury: Well, your situations are virtually identical. A drug addict makes certain decisions outside of work for their sense of self and comfort, and then the addiction demands more time, more energy, more money,...” (continue) (continue reading)

Emma Thompson - Katherine Newbury
Lucas Caleb Rooney - Gabe Eichler

“- Tom: Life is more than just what is. It’s what could be. What you could make it. You need to promise them dreams that may never come true. You need to love them knowing that you may lose them at any second. Okay? They deserve dreams. They deserve love. They deserve hope. They deserve a mother. They deserve a mother. You haven’t given them...” (continue) (continue reading)
Trevante Rhodes - Tom
Sandra Bullock - Malorie

“My children will still need a father, and I will still need a husband.”

Rachel Weisz - Clare Crowhurst

“Children can be nasty, don't you think?”
Eileen Heckart - Hortense Daigle