I don't even remember the rest of the movie.
"I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are." - Mewtwo
As a trans person, this has always been one of my favorite fiction quotes.
“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.” ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
That book does a really good job of presenting just how shitty humans are pretty much throughout, without coming across as being preachy or sanctimonious, and I like that.
Meanwhile:
Cats: torture their prey to death as a form of play.
Dolphins: you dont want to know.
If a person did half the stuff animals do, no one could look at them the same again.
People do some awful things but we are also probably the only species that has members that sympathise with other species above ourselves.
Exactly what defines us is the sitting down and setting our wits to something.
Sometimes it's horror, sometimes it's greatness.
But everytime it's more prominent than anything other animals can do.
Because wits is the trait that succeed in evolution, it's the trait that gives you more agency.
we are also probably the only species that has members that sympathise with other species above ourselves
I don't buy that for a second, and neither would you if you've ever had a beloved pet. These little furry guys treat you like their bff, I can honestly see why some humans refer to them as fur babies.
And it's not just cats, dogs, and crows. If you know where to look (shoutouts to the BigBoye subreddit, for example), you can find evidence of all sorts of animal species befriending humans or other species outside their own.
So much of that is dead wrong:
Cats: torture their prey to death as a form of play.
"Play" isn't just an idle pursuit. It's also a form of safe practice of one's life pursuit. In the case of cats, they evolved to be almost 100% carnivores, so it's natural for them to live, breath, and yes practice / play at honing their pursuit and kill skills. It is literally their fundamental job that separates them from dying off.
Dolphins: you dont want to know.
Let's not forget two things here: 1) much of the rapey stuff (as with ducks) also serves the fundamental life model of reproduction being one of the highest natural priorities, however its accomplished; 2) dolphins are hella smart, just like us, and if anything, it goes to show that smart species with idle time can devise some pretty wild pastimes.
If a person did half the stuff animals do, no one could look at them the same again.
To compare the lifestyles of a single animal species (humans) with all the others is a fool's mission. In fact, most animals live fairly predictable, innocuous lives. They have their classic interactions with the world and don't tend to bother other species-- mainly because it's not worth their time.
People do some awful things but we are also probably the only species that has members that sympathise with other species above ourselves.
Nonsense. Pretty much all higher social / tribal animals can pretty easily sympathise / empathise with other species, such as our fellow apes, dogs, cetaceans, corvids, elephants, parrots, and even domestic cats.
Watership down is PTSD camouflaged as children's media.
Richard Adams wrote it based on his military time. Certain features of the book are clearly informed by his experience, like how they're constantly talking about how fatigued or rested they are, based on the speed they've been traveling or working and how long they've been at it.
He said he based particular characters on particular people he knew. The seagull was a big explosives guy, Bigwig was a tough-as-hell officer that he really liked working with, and so on.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, chapter 10 is pretty rough, particularly this stark line:
"Slowly but surely, everybody in the house began to starve."
I read the book to my daughter a few years back and I'd forgotten quite how bleak things are before all the fun stuff that people remember.
Roald Dahl did not fuck around. He grew up in one of those psychopathic early-20th-century British boarding schools, and then went to Africa once he graduated, and World War 2 broke out and he fought in Egypt and Greece.
He wrote children's literature because kids tend to vibe with how his brain works, but he was not playing games. Read his adult short stories sometime.
Edit: From his autobiography, from early on in his time in Africa:
Suddenly, the voice of a man yelling in Swahili exploded into the quiet of the evening ... He was yelling from somewhere behind the house. "Simba, bwana! Simba! Simba!"
Simba is Swahili for lion. All three of us leapt to our feet, and the next moment Mdisho came tearing round the corner of the house yelling at us in Swahili. "Come quick, bwana! Come quick! Come quick! A huge lion is eating the wife of the cook!"
That sounds pretty funny when you put it on paper back here in England, but to us, standing on a veranda in the middle of East Africa, it was not funny at all.
Robert Sanford flew into the house and came out again in five seconds flat holding a powerful rifle and ramming a cartridge into the breech. "Get those children indoors!" he shouted to his wife as he ran down off the veranda with me behind him.
Yeah, I've read a couple, one about a frozen leg of lamb, I remember. He was a pretty dark character, including holding some deeply offensive views.
Talented guy when he was focusing his work though - there was a great anthology TV series in the UK called Tales of the Unexpected, some episodes of which I think were based on his more adult writing (including the leg of lamb one).
"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too fears what he has created?"
Came here to say this. I was super surprised when I first found out that this came from Spy Kids.
It's such a good quote and yet it comes from spy kids. Not that spy kids is bad, but still.
"I like you as you are Exactly and precisely I think you turned out nicely And I like you as you are
I like you as you are Without a doubt or question Or even a suggestion Cause I like you as you are
I like your disposition Your facial composition And with your kind permission I’ll shout it to a star
I like you as you are I wouldn’t want to change you Or even rearrange you Not by far
I like you I-L-I-K-E-Y-O-U I like you, yes I do I like you, Y-O-U I like you, like you as you are"
- Mr. Rogers
There's so many good Mr. Rogers quotes. What a wholesome human. I'm sad I wasn't around to witness the height of his cultural relevance, but the beauty of him and his teachings were their timelessness. May his work be immortalized.
PBS had so many kind, gentle people working to remind us that there is love, kindness and hope in the world if we just take time to make room for it.
There was a clear reason for what this saint did.
I cried for a moment then laughed when i saw your username.
Good. ;)
"If the world chooses to become my enemy... Then I will fight. Like I always have.",
Shadow, Sonic 06
Ozai: (bitterly) It was to teach you respect.
Zuko: It was cruel! And it was wrong.
Ozai: Then you have learned nothing.
Zuko: No, I've learned everything! And I had to learn it on my own.
Avatar: the Last Airbender
"They say suffering brings wisdom. If that is the case, then I intend to make you very wise."
Optimus Prime, Transformers Comics
damn I feel like I'm missing a lot not reading transformers
"Man, don't you know? The law ain't made to help earthy cats like us. Here on our planet, back in the old days - back in the real old days - it was just every man for himself, scrooblin' and scrat-scroblin' for the good stuff, the greenest valleys. And the strongest, meanest men got the best stuff. They got the green valleys and were like 'The rest of you, y'all scrats get sand.' And that's when they made the laws, you see? Once the strong guys got it how they liked it, they said 'This is fair now, this is the law.' Once they were winning, they changed the rules up." —Jake the Dog, Adventure Time, "Ocarina"
Winnie the Pooh
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.
I think that this captures so much of the human condition.
Winnie the Pooh is a treasure trove of wonderful insights.
Lots of good answers for ATLA, but I'm partial to the "Do the tides command this ship?" scene.
Maybe the best introductory scene for a villain that I've ever seen.
There was no specific quote, but watching Azula have a bona fide nervous breakdown after all her friends abandoned her was something else even as an adult.
One of the things most people I know like about Azula is that the show ended with her still being evil. They wrote her to be genuine with herself, and that meant no redemption.
"Can your science explain why it rains?"
Sokka: "Yes! Yes it can!"
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Avatar Legend of Kora, Varick says:
'If you can't make money during a war, you just flat-out cannot make money.'
Pretty much the entirety of the Animorphs book series, but I guess there was a reason for it. But for some kids books, holy hell.
"See, win or lose, right or wrong, the memory of violence sits inside your head. It sits there, like some lump you can't quite swallow. It sits there, a black hole that darkens hope, and eats away at everyday happiness like a cancer. It's the shadow you take into your own heart and try to live with."
Man if they tried to put that in a Dark Knight comic the editor would probably want them to tone it down
Probably so. That's a great little quote from the books, but the stories and descriptions and gruesome torture and trauma and death and moral delimas and specicide in those books are just crazy.
If it wasn't sex or rape, it was on the table.
I was on an animorph forum for years past the age those books were aimed at, and some of my best friends were made there. That book series shaped me a lot, and it absolutely went as hell sometimes. Marco, man, whoo... The shit Marco went through.
There's an argument to be made that Rocko's Modern Life was not for children, but it aired on Nickelodeon in the afternoon, so we watched it. And this is poignant as hell-
R-E-C-Y-C-L-E Recycle!
C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E Conserve!
Don't you P-O-L-L-U-T-E. Pollute the rivers, sky, or sea. Or else you're gonna get what you deserve...I still sing it to myself sadly when I read the news sometimes.
Rocko fought city hall! Rocko fought corporate America! They are big and he is small, Rocko fought city hall.
I also blame this for why my sense of civic duty exists, despite the obviously flawed and ofte. monstrous system I find myself in.
Heffer: (singing) Spring cleaning! Spring cleaning!
Rocko: Heff?
Heffer: Hi, Rocko!
Rocko: Why was everyone singing?
Heffer: We just had a song in our hearts.
Rocko: How is it you all know the words? Did you rehearse?
Heffer: Yeah, every Thursday. Didn't you see the flyers?It's a litttttle risqué, but I watched RML growing up and I turned out okay! Hopefully no one replies to this comment!
I am dashing your hopes by replying! But I want to say you've grown up so well and have lots of stuff to be proud of. Maybe things didn't go the way you hoped, but you did the best you could with what you had and what you knew at the time, and that makes you a good person in my book.
The land before time. Littlefoot sees his shadow and thinks its his mother, realizes its not and that hes very very alone.
"Fraggles don't have any bosses [...] We each lead ourselves and we all lead each other." - Wembley Fraggle, Fraggle Rock
"There is a difference between you and me. We both looked into the abyss. But when it looked back at us... you blinked."
--Batman, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)
Batman gives you so many options.
“It doesn't mean I don't care anymore. I don't want to let you down, honest, but... but it just doesn't hurt so bad anymore. You can understand that, can't you? Look, I can give money to the city - they can hire more cops. Let someone else take the risk, but it's different now! Please! I need it to be different now. I know I made a promise, but I didn't see this coming. I didn't count on being happy. Please! Tell me that it's okay.”
— Bruce Wayne at his parents’ grave in Mask of the Phantasm
“Think about it - a world where there's no crime, no victims, no pain.”
“And no choice. Who elected you, anyway?”
“Who elected you? The problem with democracy is, it doesn't keep you very safe.”
“It has other virtues. But you seem to have forgotten them.”
“I didn't forget! I just chose peace and security instead.”
“You grabbed power!”
“And with that power, we've made a world where no eight-year-old boy will ever lose his parents because of some punk with a gun!”
*Batman drops his batarang; it clatters to the ground*
“You win.”
— Batman loosing a debate with Alternate Universe Totalitarian Batman in the Justice League episode “A Better World”
And then, later on, as they're watching some guy get hauled off by the police to get "reeducated" after getting upset at a waiter, Batman says to Justice Lord Batman, very sarcastically:
"Mom and Dad would be so proud."
Batman and Ace, the whole scene, JL Unlimited.
this reminds me of an 80s movie quote
" I tell you Boris, that one of these days we'll look in to our microscope and find ourselves staring right into God's eyes, and the first one who blinks is going to lose his testicles. " - Dr. Harry Wolper, Creator (1985)
"Life is pain, Princess."
Anyone who says differently is selling something.
"Death is only the beginning" - Imhotep's last line in The Mummy.
A man that has been dead for a couple millenia and is about to return to death utters these ominous words. Yes, it's probably just to leave the story open for a sequel, but the metaphysical implications are terrifying. He knows what it's like, and he's claiming that so much more comes after, but we're just left with a vague notion of what it could be. What could this mean? Is there sunshine and rainbows? Eternal torture? An endless void? An infinite realm of possibilities has just opened up for us, the audience.
But there's no time for that shit, there's gold and Benny's a greedy sack of shit, the temple's crumbling, and once they escape there's a celebration and denoument to be had! We've all but forgotten that threat—or promise, as the case may be.
One of the best ways I have ever seen writers leave the door ajar for a sequel. There's no hand pushing up through the rubble, no sinister laugh as the screen fades to black, no "did anyone remember to check that he died for sure?" no cheesy gimmicks. Just an ominous vaguery, that may be about hinting at another installment, but still works by itself as a raw line that goes hard af.
Yet another reason why that movie is a goddamn masterpiece.
The Mummy
children's media
Huh... TIL it's PG-13. I saw it way younger.
Regardless, I consider anyone under the age of 18 to be a child
"Pay a man enough and he'll walk barefoot into Hell."
- David Xanatos, Gargoyles
I remember being convinced I remembered Riker saying this (arguing with a friend) which is how I discovered who voiced Xanatos.
"If you'll excuse me, I have some children to turn into corpses!" -Bill Cypher, Gravity Falls
"I demand a favor"
"I grant but one boon, mortal. And it will be given to you as it is given to everyone - when your time has come."
Gargoyles, Guy summons Anubis to bring back his son. YT Link for the amazing delivery.
"Death is always pointless - that is the point"
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‘Everyone dies, some now some later’ from Princess Mononoke
Great quote, but this isn't really a children's movie
"what do you mean, it's little animated pictures, of course it's for kids"
~a bad mom
The entirety of Coco
Yeah, Coco goes pretty hard. I cry every time.
I don't remember the exact line, but the line in the end of An American Tail where Fivel says something to the extent of "I'll never find my family" and that they don't love him because he thinks they all gave up on him having survived falling off the boat and into the ocean really hit hard, for me at least.
Tried to put in a spoiler tag thing, but it wasn't working on my end, so sorry for spoiling this moment in the end of the movie to those who have somehow never seen it. You're only close to 40 years late now.
Orphan #1: So what's your story?
Fievel Mousekewitz: I'm looking for my family.
Orphan #2: Hey, fellas! He's looking for his family.
Orphan #1, Orphan #3: [Teasing] He's looking for his family!
Orphan #3: I stopped looking a long time ago.
Orphan #2: At least you know who they are.
Orphan #1: Besides, why are you looking for them? They should be looking...
Orphan #1, Orphan #2, Orphan #3: ...for you!
Orphan #3: They don't care. Forget 'em. Fievel Mousekewitz: [Angry] You're right! They don't care, and if they did, they would have found me! Well, if they don't care, I don't care! I hope I never see them again!
Orphan #2: Yeah! Forget about them! You're one of us now!
Orphan #1: Here. Make yourself a bed.
[They toss hay over Fievel]. Orphan #1: Ha-ha-ha! Pitiful.
Fievel Mousekewitz: [Crying] I'll never find them anyway. Never. Never. Never. This is my home now.Yeah! This! It's just such an emotional gut punch to see the ever optimistic Fievel just give up at the very end.
They all gave up on him
having survived falling off the boat and into the ocean
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I don't know if it's a Voyager thing or if it's just a lemme.ee thing or what, but I can't seem to ever see spoilers on my end.
I have no idea how you can remember so many quotes, but everything by Michael Ende is deep. I like Momo a lot, it is about time, happiness, depression, society, capitalism and a lot more.
Looks like everyone here has some great quotes. I've got a challenge though: can you find a quote that's equally epic in a kids movie/tv show made in the last 10 years?
The Cheshire cat, and much of Alice in wonderland, hit quite hard, but in a good way. Helped me see that insanity, mental health issues could be a good thing
