Eliza Quotes in The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)

Eliza: I told them about my powers, and I lost them.

Debbie: You did that for me?

Sloan: You *will* regret this!

Eliza: I don't care! What you're doing is awful!

Sloan: And what you're doing is stupid! Shame you won't be here to help me carry out the ivory.

Bree: I told Sloan he shouldn't cut that rope ladder.

Eliza: It was you!

Sloan: Yes. Thank you so much for returning my knife to me.

Eliza: I need to talk to mom and dad.

Debbie: You can talk to me! And pretend that I'm listening.

Debbie: But can't you, like, make elephant noises or something?

Eliza: Debbie, I can't talk to them! How can I help them?

Sloan: Oh, I'm afraid you'll have to miss the solar eclipse, you can catch it on the poaching channel.

Eliza: YOU BUILD THE FENCE!

Sloan: Of course. Now here's a question, for your famous father. How many volts of electricity, does it take to kill a thousand elephants, hmm?

Eliza: [Sloan holds Debbie captive, after discovering she's related with Eliza] LET HER GO!

Sloan: Certainly, if you tell me who is your source of information.

Eliza: I told you, there's no one, I... I just guessed all of that stuff, the fence, and the explosives and...

Sloan: I NEVER MENTIONED EXPLOSIVES, YOU'RE LYING!

Debbie: [choking] What's he talking about?

Sloan: [hold Debbie near a cliff] TELL ME, OR SHE GOES OVER THE EDGE!

Bree: JUST GET RID OF HER, SLOAN!

Eliza: PLEASE! SHE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING, ABOUT THIS!

Sloan: WHO TOLD YOU THESE THING?

Eliza: I CAN'T TELL YOU!

Debbie: [choked] ELIZA!

Eliza: STOP! WAIT, I'LL TELL YOU! I know these things, because... I can talk to animals.

Spike: Could you give a dog a little warning? I'm trying to do my business here.

Eliza: Oh, I'm so sorry.

Spike: You know, it's funny. For a minute there, I thought I actually heard you talking to me. You talking to me? Are you talking to me?

Eliza: Yeah, I can talk to animals. It's a long story.

Spike: Hey, chimp boy. Will you stop worrying? I know all about cats with a capital "K". Sit on a window sill, hack up a fur ball... Oh! That is very ferocious!

Eliza: Spike, this isn't your regular housecat.

Spike: They all twitch their whiskers one whisker at a time, just like you and me.

Eliza: What happened?

Debbie Thornberry: I was taking care of this island princess and...

Eliza: What's she doing in the bathysphere?

Debbie Thornberry: [scoffs] I didn't say I was taking care of her *well*.

Eliza: Debbie, you are so self-centered.

Debbie Thornberry: [screams] I AM NOT!

Siri: I'm Siri, the clouded leopard.

Spike: Im Spike, the purebred mutt!

Siri: [Siri raises her claws to Spike] See these claws?

Spike: [Spike raises his butt and tail to Siri back] Sniff my butt!

Eliza: [Scared and hesitantly] Spike, why'd you do that?

Spike: I was being social!

Darwin: [rolls his eyes] Of course a simple handshake wouldn't do!

Spike: Hey Twitchy! I *do not* shake with cats, OK?

Les: Why don't you just try playing it all a little bit by ear, you know?

Eliza: Is that what you do, Les? You just play it all by ear?

Les: Yeah, I find it's the best organ to play by. I mean, I have been accused of playing by another, but...

Eliza: Will you remember me as the most fucked up girl you ever knew?

Woman in Bakery Line: You have to admit it's your own fault. If you have named her Sophie or Ella you wouldn't be having this problem. But you gave her an Edna name.

Eliza: A what?

Woman in Bakery Line: You know, an Edna name? Like Mabel or Agnes or Velma...

Bakery Clerk: Yeah like lesbian librarian names.

Woman in Bakery Line: Don't you read the Crankypants Post? She did a whole thing last week about names, it was genius.

Eliza: Well, yes, I mean I do read her but I like other parenting blogs better. What about Bjorn Identity?

Woman in Bakery Line: That woman is so... I dunno. I think she's a feminist.

Eliza: Well, what could be worse than that? Anyway, Clara is not an Edna name, right?

Woman in Bakery Line: Let me guess, you named her after your favourite grandmother?

Eliza: Stop.

[reading from her 500-word motherhood-themed article for submission to a magazine prize contest]

Eliza: Motherhood is about accepting the limitations of time and energy which stretch beyond you, even though sometimes it feels they can consume you. Search for and hold on to your own true self. If you lose that, what kind of mother can you be? Things are always changing no matter how much we might want things to stay the same. You could take a picture of your kids every single day and every single day they'd just be getting older. That's a fact, a heartbreaking fact, but still a fact. / So, seize your days and dwell in them fully. Look to your children because they know how to inhabit brief periods of time with extreme passion. And for nothing more, really, than the sake of those moments. They can help you remember that, if you only slow down and let them. Feel fortunate because chances are good you actually might be.

[first lines]

National Spelling Bee Pronouncer: Number 14. Eliza Naumann, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. "Oppidan".

Eliza: "Oppidan".

[sighs]

Eliza: [narrating] My father told me once that words and letters hold all the secrets of the universe. That in there shapes and sounds, I could find everything and see beyond myself, to something special. Perfect. My father told me once that I could reach the ear of God.

[last lines]

Eliza: [narrating as she walks off stage] My father told me once that I could reach the ear of God. That words and letters would guide me to reach beyond myself; to know the world as whole again. And like the ancient mystics, God will flow through me. And we would be together.

Miriam: [watching her on television] She's my daughter.

[crying, laughing]