Disney Movie Quotes

Disney movie quotes have made the transition from film lines to pop culture touchstones. Learn where some of your favorite phrases were first shared with audiences.

Disney movie quotes are so popular and well known that they've become a part of modern Western culture. Very few children or adults would fail to recognize the "Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho" working song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or the phrase "Hakuna matata" from The Lion King.

Though the Disney Company now owns other studios, the true classic movies are the ones that invoke the traditional spirit of Walt Disney. Classic Disney movies always include fun animation, amusing songs and a moral lesson. The classic movies are what inspired rides and activities at Walt Disney World, Disneyland and other Disney theme parks.

Disney Movie Quotes

• "Oh, that's all right. He can call me a flower if he wants to; I don't mind." Flower the skunk mumbles this line in Bambi.
• "Eating greens is a special treat; it makes long ears and great big feet. But it sure is awful stuff to eat. I made that last part up myself." Thumper the rabbit recites this phrase in Bambi.
• "Even miracles take a little time." Cinderella's Fairy Godmother recites this line to the impatient girl in Cinderella.
• "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep." Cinderella sings this phrase in Cinderella.
• "Poor Cinderelly. Ev'ry time she find a minute, that's the time when they begin it. 'Cinderelly! Cinderelly!'" Jaq the mouse exclaims this line in Cinderella.
• "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all." The Emperor of China recites this phrase in Mulan.
• "To die would be an awfully big adventure." Peter Pan exclaims this line in Peter Pan.
• "Thou sword of truth, fly swift and sure, that evil die and good endure!" The good fairy Flora recites this line in Sleeping Beauty.
• "Magic mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" The evil queen recites this phrase to her mirror in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
• "Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony. Skin white as snow." The magic mirror recites this phrase in response to the evil queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
• "What do you do when things go wrong? Oh! You sing a song!" Snow White sings this line in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
• "Hmm! Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch and they swim all over you!" Sebastian the crab mumbles this line to a fleeing Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
• "Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase!" Timon sings this line in a song with Pumbaa and Simba in The Lion King.
• "The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it." Rafiki recites this advice to Simba in The Lion King.
• "But Zazu, you told me they're nothing but slobbering mangy stupid poachers." Simba exclaims this line to his friend when they are approached by hyenias in The Lion King.