Quotes about Children

Norman: What's the matter, Pop? Don't cha love me anymore?
Harold Bissonette: (he raises his hand to hit Norman) Certainly I love you.
Amelia: Don't you strike that child!
Harold Bissonette: Well, he's not gonna tell me I don't love him.

- W.C. Fields (as Harold Bissonette) in It's a Gift (1934)

Shirl: I just got started. You think I wanna settle down with a 12-year old kid? Why do you think I left my husband? Him and his whole family kept bugging me day after day... have a baby, have a baby. Who needs a baby? I'm a baby myself. I wanna be free... have fun.
Tony Manetta: Who don't?
Shirl: You don't. You're not selfish enough.
Tony Manetta: You kidding? I'm the most selfish man in the world.
Shirl: Would you leave your kid?

- Carolyn Jones (as Shirl) in A Hole in the Head (1959)

Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Why, this is barbarous! Must the queen's child be born in public?
Count de Mercey: Dr. Franklin, a French monarch belongs to the public. He must be born, he must live and he must die in public.

- Henry Stephenson (as Count de Mercey) in Marie Antoinette (1938)

Milly Stephenson: What do you think of the children?
Al Stephenson: Children? I don't recognize 'em. They've grown so old.
Milly Stephenson: I tried to stop them, to keep them just as they were when you left, but they got away from me.

- Myrna Loy (as Milly Stephenson) in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Al Stephenson: We don't need to worry about that child. She can take care of herself.
Milly Stephenson: That's what she thinks.

- Myrna Loy (as Milly Stephenson) in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Captain von Trapp: Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses.

- Christopher Plummer (as Captain Von Trapp) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Frau Schmidt: The Von Trapp children don't play. They march.

- Norma Varden (as Frau Schmidt) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Max: The Von Trapp Family Singers. Here are your names: Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Brigitta, Kurt, Marta and Gretl.
Gretl: Why am I always last?
Max: Because you are the most important.

- Richard Haydn (as Max Detweiler) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Captain von Trapp: You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement on the last one. She stayed only two hours.

- Christopher Plummer (as Captain Von Trapp) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Maria: Gretl, what happened to your finger?
Gretl: It got caught.
Maria: Caught in what?
Gretl: Friedrich's teeth.

- Kym Karath (as Gretl) in The Sound of Music (1965)