Memorable quotes for
The Railway Children (1970) More at IMDbPro »

Bobbie Waterbury: It's Perks's birthday, he's 42, he says he got other things to keep than his birthday, not rabbits and secrets but the kids and the bloomin' missus.
Mrs. Waterbury: Wife and children Bobbie.
Bobbie Waterbury: Same thing isn't it?
Phyllis Waterbury: Bloomin' missus is a sort of a germ of endearment isn't it?
Mrs. Waterbury: Term of endearment Phil.
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Albert Perks: Well I must be getting along, lots to do. Perks must be about it.
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Bobbie Waterbury: There's going to be a paperchase tomorrow.
Phyllis Waterbury: Whippee!
Bobbie Waterbury: The boys from the grammar school are doing it.
Phyllis Waterbury: Zippee!
Bobbie Waterbury: Perks says we can go by the ramp.
Phyllis Waterbury: What's a paperchase?
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Phyllis Waterbury: Apple pie for breakfast - we can't be poor after all!
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Mrs. Waterbury: May I borrow your lamp please.
Cart Man: I dare say.
Mrs. Waterbury: If you say 'I dare say' once more I shall have hysterics, I dare say.
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Phyllis Waterbury: I don't think we're going to enjoy being poor, you know, being cold and all that.
Bobbie Waterbury: Phyllis try to imagine it as an adventure, all sorts of things might happen.
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Peter Waterbury: I'm very sorry I haven't got tuppence to give you like father does.
Albert Perks: Hey just stop that please, I wasn't thinking about no tuppence. I just came to say sorry your mama wasn't so well and to ask how she finds herself this evening. And I brought you some sweet briar, very sweet. Tuppence indeed!
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Phyllis Waterbury: I hope mother doesn't get too wet in Wakefield.
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Phyllis Waterbury: It's like we're in a besieged castle, the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements.
Peter Waterbury: No, it's more like a great big garden squirt.
Phyllis Waterbury: You're a great big garden squirt.
Peter Waterbury: Thank you.
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Phyllis Waterbury: I O N. There; 'Look out at the station'.
Bobbie Waterbury: One of your finest works, Michaelangelo.
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[as the smoke on the station platform clears, Bobbie sees her father who has just been released from prison. Diffidently, she runs towards him]
Bobbie Waterbury: Daddy! My Daddy!
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