Babe Quotes

Narrator: Fly decided to speak very slowly, for it was a cold fact of nature that sheep were stupid, and there was nothing that could convince her otherwise.
Fly: Please, someone tell me... what happened this morning.
Narrator: The sheep decided to speak very slowly, for it was a cold fact of nature that wolves were ignorant, and

there was nothing that could convince them otherwise.
Sheep: Babe came. He saved us.

Old Ewe: We've got something here that might be of use to our pig.
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Password! Password!
Old Ewe: Before we gives you anything, wolf, you'll be making us a solemn promise.
Rex: Yes?
Sheep: Treat us civil!
Old

Ewe: Yes, you gotta treat us nice-like.
Rex: I'll try.
Sheep: No biting!
Old Ewe: That's right, wolf must avoid biting us sheep at all costs.
Rex: All right. I'll try that too. I'll try.
Old Ewe: But the most important of all, you must promise never ever to let this

password we be about to give to be used against any sheep anywhere.
Rex: I promise you that; I'll make make sure that the pig knows it too.
Old Ewe: We have the promise!
Sheep: 'Tis for Babe!
Sheep: It's for his sake!
Sheep: Maa would've wanted it.
Old

Ewe, Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Baa-ram-ewe. Baa-ram-ewe. To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true. Sheep be true. Baa-ram-ewe.

[Babe's first attempt to herd sheep just got him laughed at]
Babe: This is ridiculous, Mum!
Fly: Nonsense. It's only your first try. But you're treating them like equals. They're sheep; they're inferior.
Babe: Oh, no, they're not.
Fly: Of course they are. We are their masters, Babe. Let them doubt it

for a second and they'll walk all over you!
Rex: Fly! Get the pig out of there!
Fly: Make them feel inferior - abuse them, insult them.
Rex: Fly!
Babe: They'll laugh at me.
Fly: Then bite them! Be ruthless. Whatever it takes, bend them to your will.
Rex:

Enough!
Fly: Go on, go!

Babe: [relieved that he's alive] Ferdinand!
Cow: If you're out here, who's that in there?
Ferdinand: Her name's Rosanna.
[They watch the Hoggett family carve the roast duck]
Ferdinand: Why Rosanna? She - she had such a beautiful nature.
Babe: Oh, Ferdinand...

Ferdinand: I can't take it anymore.
Cow: [disapprovingly] Really.
Ferdinand: The fear's too much for a duck. It - it eats away at the soul! There must be kinder dispositions in far-off gentler lands.
Cow: The only way you'll find happiness is to accept that the way things are is the way things are.

Ferdinand: 'The way things are' stinks! I'm not gonna be a goner, I'm gone! I wish all of you the best of luck.

Narrator: [Ferdinand has persuaded Babe to help him steal the Hoggets' new alarm clock] Now the duck knew exactly what he had to do. The alarm clock had to go. His very life depended on it.
[Ferdinand and Babe peer into the Hoggets' bedroom window, seeing the clock on the bedside table]
Ferdinand: Do you see it?
Babe: Yes.

Ferdinand: Good.

[Babe has driven away the pack of wild dogs that have attacked the sheep and gravelly injured Maa. The sheep have formed a circle around Maa's body. Maa moans in agony as Babe runs to her side]
Babe: Maa! Maa! Are you alright?
Maa: [weakly] Hello, little young'un.
Babe: Oh, Maa... Can you get up?
Maa:

[voice growing weaker as she is dying] I... don't... reckon.
Babe: [as the sheep sadly bleat Maa's name] It's over, Maa. The wolves have gone far away. I'll get the boss, he'll come to look after you.
[voice breaking]
Babe: You'll be alright... You'll be alright...
[Maa lays her head down and breathes her last]

Babe: [Reality sets in as Babe realizes that Maa is gone] Oh, Maa... Maa...!
[Wails as tears streaming down his face. The sheep crying and bleating along]
Babe: MAAA-AAAA! MAA-AAA-AA! MAAA-AAA-AA!

[Ferdinand and Babe are planning to steal the Alarm clock behind the dog house outside the Hoggett farm house]
Babe: So I go through the kitchen, across the living room.
Ferdinand: Good, good, good!
Babe: I go into the bedroom...
Ferdinand: Yup!
Babe: ...Get the mechanical

rooster...
Ferdinand: Yep!
Babe: ...And bring it out to you.
Ferdinand: What about the cat?
Babe: Oh, I'll *quietly* bring it out to you.
Ferdinand: Excellent.
Babe: I don't think I can do it.
Ferdinand: Nah!

Babe: It's against the rules. Only dogs and cats are allowed in the house.
Ferdinand: I love that rule. It's a good rule. But *this* is bigger than rules! This is life and death!
Babe: What?
Ferdinand: Mmm-Hmmm... Follow me.
[Ferdinand waddles into the dog house; Babe lingers at the entrance]

Ferdinand: Hello?
Babe: [Babe enters the dog house]
Ferdinand: Look, there is something you should know: Humans eat ducks!
Babe: [gasps] I beg your pardon?
Ferdinand: Oh, most ducks prefer to forget about it. But the truth is, humans like to eat plump attractive ducks.

Babe: Oh, I don't think so. Not the boss. Not the boss's wife.
Ferdinand: Come on! Humans don't eat cats. Why?
Babe: Well, they're...
Ferdinand: They're indispensable! They catch mice. Humans don't eat roosters. Why?
Babe: Well, uh... I-I...
Ferdinand: They are

indispensable. They make eggs with the hens and wake everybody in the morning. I tried it with the hens. It didn't work. So I turned to crowing... and Lo! I discovered my gift! But no sooner do I become indispensable, then they bring in a *machine* to do the job!
[moaning in despair]
Ferdinand: Oh-ho! The treachery of it... A *mechanical rooster*!

Babe: Oh, dear me.
Ferdinand: Oh, dear you?
[Ferdiand sighs]
Ferdinand: [forlorn] I suppose the life of an anorexic duck doesn't amount in the broad scheme of things... but pig... I'm all I've got!
Babe: So... why do you want me to do it?
Ferdinand: [groans] I'm allergic to cats.

Babe: Oh.
Ferdinand: [sadly] They make me sneeze.
Babe: Don't worry. I won't wake the cat.
[Babe heads for the dog door in the Hogget's front door]