The Mouse Child Quotes in The Mouse and His Child (1977)
The Mouse Child Quotes:
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The Mouse Child: Papa, I'm afraid! I wanna go home! What's gonna happen to us?
The Mouse: Well, something good, son, as easily as something else. Why, anything can happen.
Manny the Rat: But it won't! Not this evening, my lads!
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The Mouse Child: I wanna go home.
Manny the Rat: The very place I had in mind. Come on, now, my lovelies, I'm taking you home.
The Mouse Child: We're going back to the toy shop?
The Mouse: I don't think that's the home he's talking about.
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The Mouse: [after witnessing Ralphie dismantle the donkey] That was horrible!
The Mouse Child: You're a bad rat!
Manny the Rat: You noticed?
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Ralphie: [talking to himself] Now, let's see, first thing, I go, uh, in the morning I go to the, um, uh, the guard!
The Mouse Child: No, the manager.
The Mouse: Son, don't help him. They'll make us thieves soon enough.
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The Frog: Tell you your fortune? Give me your palm.
The Mouse Child: [indicating their permanently linked hands] We don't have one.
The Frog: Can't read your hand. Well, no matter, I'll just read your feet.
Ralphie: Their feet?
The Frog: An ancient form of divination taught to me by the praying mantis of the Babylonian persuasion.
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The Frog: What would you have from the future? It could be anything you like.
The Mouse Child: I want the Elephant to be my mama.
The Mouse: You what - ?
The Mouse Child: And the Seal to be my sister. And we'll all live together in the toy store.
The Frog: An elephant? That's rather a large order. And you?
The Mouse: I don't want anything given to me. I want something taken away.
The Frog: What's that?
The Mouse: Our key. The world being what it is, we'd be better off if we were free to wind ourselves.
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The Mouse: [underwater] Please, take us to the surface
The Mouse Child: ...And wind us up
C. Serpentina: Wind you up? Hm'... In what sense?
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