Quotes about Children

Captain von Trapp: I don't care to hear anything further from you about my children.
Maria: I am not finished yet!
Captain von Trapp: Oh, yes, you are, Captain!
[pauses]
Captain von Trapp: Fraulein.

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

Maria: I'd like to thank each and every one of you for the precious gift you left in my pocket today.
Captain von Trapp: Um, what gift?
Maria: It's meant to be a secret, Captain, between the children and me.
Captain von Trapp: Uh-huh. Then I suggest that you keep it, and let us eat.
Maria: Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted. It was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and... pleasant.
[All the while, the children look guilty. Marta starts to cry]
Captain von Trapp: What is the matter, Marta?
Marta: Nothing.
[Louisa, Brigitta and Gretl join in, while Liesl, Friedrich and Kurt continue to look guilty]
Captain von Trapp: Uh, Fräulein... is it to be at every meal, or merely at dinnertime, that you, uh, intend leading us all through this rare and wonderful new world of... indigestion?
Maria: Oh, they're all right, Captain. They're just happy.
[All of the girls, except Liesl, continue to cry out of guilt]

- Julie Andrews (as Maria) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Earnshaw: Children, you may as well learn here and now that you must share what you have with others not as fortunate as yourselves.

- Cecil Kellaway (as Earnshaw) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Larson E. Whipsnade: You kids are disgusting! Standing around here all day, reeking of popcorn and lollipops.

- W.C. Fields (as Larson E. Whipsnade) in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Huw Morgan: [Narrating] I think I fell in love with Bronwen then. Perhaps it is foolish to think a child could fall in love. But I am the child that was, and nobody knows how I felt, except only me.

- Irving Pichel (as Huw Morgan) in How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Tony: You know what Maria and me are gonna do out in the country? We're gonna have kids, lots of 'em, and name them all after you-even the girls. That way when you come and visit...
Doc: [slaps him] Wake up! Is this the only way to get to you? Fight like all you kids do?

- Ned Glass (as Doc) in West Side Story (1961)