Parents quotes

“I hated the deal, but I'm sorry you feel so badly about it. Your children love you, they want to play with you. How long do you think that lasts? Soon Jack may not even want you to come to his games. We have a few special years with our children, when they're the ones that want us around. After that you're going to be running after them for a...” (continue)(continue reading)

Caroline Goodall - Moira Banning

“- Matilda: I have the adoption papers.
- Mrs. Wormwood: What? Where did you get those?
- Matilda: From a book in the library. I've had them since I was big enough to xerox.”
Mara Wilson - Matilda
Rhea Perlman - Mrs. Wormwood

“Parenting is an impossible job at any age.”
Harrison Ford

“The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.”
Ray Romano

“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

“Our son doesn't know who Boz Scaggs is. We have failed as parents.”

Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“Good evening. How's it going? Listen, girls... uh... as your father, I feel it incumbent upon me to set the record straight on the validity of the tale which Uncle Chet shared with us this evening. I know that a terrifying story like that coming from the mouth of a recognized authority figure could be traumatizing for kids like yourselves; I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig

“Isn't that what's wrong with the world today? People are just looking for the easy way out, like their problems are gonna go away? Problems just don't go, Flo! You know? So the question here is: what are we going to do with our little problemchild? I'll tell you what we are going to do. Something that no parent has ever done for him before....” (continue)(continue reading)
John Ritter - Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.

“Mr. Warbucks, when my folks left me at the orphanage ten years ago, they left a note saying they'd come back to get me as soon as they could, and they kept the other half of this old locket so I'd know them when they came.”
Aileen Quinn - Annie

“Sometimes it's scary. But that's ok. Because it's still just you and me...”

Jacob Tremblay - Jack

“- Annie: Close your eyes. Think about your folks.
- Molly: You're the only one who really has folks. Mine are dead.
- Annie: Think about the folks who want to adopt you, because want a little girl with brown hair and brown eyes.”
Aileen Quinn - Annie
Toni Ann Gisondi - Molly

“Oh my God, they're retarded.”

Michael Oliver - Junior

“I understand that you little guys start out with your woobies and you think they're great... and they are, they are terrific. But pretty soon, a woobie isn't enough. You're out on the street trying to score an electric blanket, or maybe a quilt. And the next thing you know, you're strung out on bedspreads Ken. That's serious.”

Michael Keaton - Jack

“- Dale Kerrigan: [voice-over] Dad always had a way of making us feel special. Like the time I dug a hole.
- Darryl Kerrigan: Go on, tell them Dale.
- Dale Kerrigan: I dug a hole.
- Sal Kerrigan: Oh good on you Dale.”
Stephen Curry - Dale Kerrigan
Michael Caton-Jones - Darryl Kerrigan

“There's no way, no way that you came from my loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth!”

Jackie Gleason - Sheriff Buford T. Justice of Portague County

“Worrying about your kids is sanity, and being that sane... can drive you nuts.”
Adam Sandler - John Clasky

Wish the hell I was your dad. You wouldn't be goin' around talkin' about takin' these stupid shop courses if I was. It's like God gave you something, man, all those stories you can make up. And He said, "This is what we got for ya, kid. Try not to lose it". Kids lose everything unless there's someone there to look out for them. And if your... (continue)(continue reading)

River Phoenix - Chris Chambers

“- Sugar Ray: I'm gonna take this little boy home to his mother.
- Young Quick: My mama's dead.
- Sugar Ray: Well, your daddy?
- Young Quick: My father's dead, too.
- Sugar Ray: Did you kill them?
- Young Quick: No, they’re just dead.”
Richard Pryor - Sugar Ray
Desi Arnez Hines II - Young Quick

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

“Where are those little boogers? If I was a little booger, where would I be? Mom and Dad's room!”
Patrick Labyorteaux - Fester

“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

“Why do Chet's kids look at him like he's Zeus and my kids look at me like I'm a rack of lawn tools at Sears?”
Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig

“As husband to my grandmother I am my own grandpa!”
Tom Arnold - Stanley Stupid

“There is a look that parents of well behaved children, give to the parents of the not so well behaved. A look that says ‘you should learn to control your kids. After all, they’re your responsibility’.”
Brenda Strong - Mary Alice Young

“Honoring your parentssounds great, but if you take it too far, well, you might forget to honor yourself.”
Rosalie Chiang - Meilin