1. “The man I loved fell out of love with me. That broke my heart. When the chance to be loved came along again, I ran away from it. I stopped people.” – Bird Lady
2. “Well, two turtle doves. I’ll tell you what you do—you keep one, and you give the other one to a very special person. You see, turtle doves are a symbol of friendship and love. And as long as each of you has your turtle dove, you’ll be friends forever.” – Mr. E.F. Duncan
3. “Don’t you know a kid always wins against two idiots?” – Kevin McCallister
4. “I’m 10 years old. TV is my life.” – Kevin McCallister
5. “No offense, but that seems like sort of a dumb thing to do.” – Kevin McCallister
6. “You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose.” – Kevin McCallister
7. “You see that tree there? Well, to show our appreciation for your , I’m gonna let you select an object from that tree that you can take home with you.” – Mr. E.F. Duncan
8. “Don’t make promises you can’t keep.” – Bird Lady
9. “If Kevin hadn’t screwed up in the first place again, then we wouldn’t be in this most perfect and huge hotel room with a truck load of all this free stuff.” – Buzz McCallister
10. “This is ridiculous. Only a wimp would be hiding under a bed. And I can’t be a wimp. I’m the man of the house.” – Kevin McCallister
11. “I took a shower, washing every body part with actual soap — including all my major crevices, including in between my toes and in my belly button, which I never did before but sort of enjoyed.” – Kevin McCallister
12. “Don’t you know how to knock, phlegm-wad?” – Buzz McCallister
13. “Say, is it true French babes don’t shave their pits?” – Buzz McCallister
14. “Kevin, you are such a disease.” – Jeff McCallister
15. “There are 15 people in this house and you’re the only one who has to make trouble.” – Kate McCallister
16. “All the great ones leave their mark. We’re the Wet Bandits!” – Marv
17. “Buzz, I’m reading through all your private stuff, you better come out and pound me!” – Kevin McCallister
18. “Why the hell are you dressed like a chicken?” – Marv
19. “You can say hello when you see me. You don’t have to be afraid.” – Marley
20. “I was afraid of getting my heart broken again.” – Bird Lady
21. “Your heart might still be broken, but it isn’t gone. If it was gone, you wouldn’t be so nice.” – Kevin McCallister
22. “Okay enough of this gooey show of emotion. All right, everyone, let’s dig in!” – Buzz McCallister
23. “A person’s heart and feelings are very different from skates.” – Bird Lady
24. “If you won’t use your heart, who cares if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it’ll be like my rollerblades.” – Kevin McCallister
25. “This is my house, I have to defend it.” – Kevin McCallister
26. “Get down on your knees and tell me you love me!” – Gangster Johnny
27. “I wanna go home. Mom, where are you?” – Kevin McCallister
28. “So give it a shot for your , anyway. I’m sure she misses you and the presents.” – Kevin McCallister
29. “I won’t forget to remember you.” – Kevin McCallister
30. “Sometimes you can trust a person, and then, when things are down, they forget about you.” – Bird Lady
31. “I’m just afraid if I do trust someone, I’ll get my heart broken.” – Bird Lady
32. “If you need somebody to trust, it can be me.” – Kevin McCallister
33. “I know I won’t see her tonight, but promise me I can see her again. Some time. Any time. Even if it’s just once and only for a couple minutes. I just need to tell her I’m sorry.” – Kevin McCallister
34. “This is it! Don’t get scared now!” – Kevin McCallister
35. “I have been working very hard at keeping people away.” – Bird Lady
36. “What kind of idiots do you have working here?” – Kate McCallister
37. “I can’t trust anybody in this family. And you know what? If I had my own money, I’d go on my own vacation. Alone. Without any of you guys. And I’d have the most fun in my whole life.” – Kevin McCallister
38. “I’ll be fine. The way I’m feeling right now, no mugger or murderer would dare mess with me.” – Kate McCallister
39. “It’s a good thing I have my own ticket just in case you guys try to ditch me.” – Kevin McCallister
40. “Maybe they’re just too busy. Maybe they don’t forget about you, but they forget to remember you. People don’t mean to forget.” – Kevin McCallister
41. “That’s okay. You’re good at it. You’re not boring. You don’t mumble or spit. You should do it more often. Just wear an outfit with no pigeon poop on it.” – Kevin McCallister
42. “I don’t care how much people bug me, I’d rather be with someone than alone.” – Kevin McCallister
43. “Could I just see ? I’ll never want another thing as long as I live if I can just see my mother.” – Kevin McCallister
44. “I’d like to apologize to my family for whatever displeasure I may have caused you.” – Buzz McCallister
45. “This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I’ll be living alone. Did you hear me?” – Kevin McCallister
46. “Why don’t you just sit up here for a while and think things over? When you’re ready to apologize to Buzz and to the rest of the family, you can come down.” – Kate McCallister
47. “How could we do this? We forgot him.” – Kate McCallister
48. “I don’t care if I have to get out on your runway and hitchhike! If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son.” – Kate McCallister
49. “Nice family. Really.” – Cedrick the Bellman
50. “My says if my head wasn’t screwed on, I’d leave it on the school bus.” – Kevin McCallister
51. “Oh, wouldn’t wanna spoil your fun, Mr. Cheap Skate!” – Kevin McCallister
52. “It’s a nice night for a neck injury.” – Kevin McCallister
53. “You guys give up? Have you had enough pain?” – Kevin McCallister
54. “That’s not aftershave, Marv. That’s kerosene. The rope is soaked in it.” – Harry
55. “I’m over here you big horse’s ass, come and get me before I call the police.” – Kevin McCallister
56. “You better not wreck my trip, you little sour puss. Your dad’s paying good money for it.” – Uncle Frank
57. “I’m not sorry. I did what I did because Buzz humiliated me and since he gets away with everything, I let him have it. And since you’re all so stupidto believe his lies, I don’t care if your idiotic Florida trip gets wrecked or not! Who wants to spend Christmas in a tropical climate, anyway?” – Kevin McCallister
58. “He gave me his credit card and told me to give this to whoever was welcoming people in so I won’t get into mischief. And ma’am, sometimes I do get into mischief. We all do!” – Kevin McCallister
59. “You can’t be too careful when it involves underwear.” – Kevin McCallister
60. “I understand. I had a nice pair of rollerblades. I was afraid to wreck them, so I kept them in a box. Do you know what happened? I outgrew them. I never wore them outside. Only in my room a few times.” – Kevin McCallister
61. “It’s late. I don’t know if I’ll have enough time to do enough good deeds to erase all my bad ones.” – Kevin McCallister
62. “I’d probably be lying dead in a gutter somewhere, but not Kevin. Kevin is so much stronger and braver than I am.” – Kate McCallister
63. “Do you know how the TV works?” – Cedrick the Bellman
64. “He says that if I walked in there and saw him naked, I’d grow up never feeling like a real man.” – Kevin McCallister
65. “I’m sure he was kidding. Just run in there, get your tie, get out, and don’t look at anything.” – Peter McCallister
66. “Little truth in there somewhere.” – Bird Lady
67. “Did you know that a good deed erases a bad deed?” – Bird Lady
68. “You can be too old for a lot of things, but you’re never too old to be afraid.” – Marley
69. “Two? Make it three. I’m not driving.” – Kevin McCallister
70. “Nothing would make me happier than to kill you. Knockin’ off a youngster doesn’t mean a lot to me.” – Harry
71. “No offense, aren’t you too old to be afraid?” – Kevin McCallister
72. “You wanna throw bricks, go ahead and throw another one.” – Harry
73. “If you can’t do any better than that kid, you’re gonna lose.” – Harry
74. “Put yourself in your kid’s shoes. Where would you go? What would you do?” – Police
75. “He’s still a kid lost in a big city, he doesn’t deserve that.” – Kate McCallister
76. “As a matter of fact, this has happened before. It’s become sort of a McCallister family travel tradition.” – Kate McCallister
77. “I think that if our son can do it, I can do it.” – Kate McCallister
78. “I am trying to get home to my eight-year-old son. And now that I’m this close, you’re telling me it’s hopeless?” – Kate McCallister
79. “I cross my heart and hope to die.” – Harry
80. “Did I burn down the joint? I don’t think so. I was making ornaments out of fishhooks.” – Kevin McCallister
81. “Keep the change, ya filthy animal.” – Gangster Johnny
82. “All kids, no parents. Probably a fancy orphanage.” – Harry
83. “Guys, I’m eating junk and watching rubbish! You better come out and stop me!” – Kevin McCallister
84. “I don’t want to sleep on the hide-a-bed with Fuller. If he has something to drink, he’ll wet the bed.” – Kevin McCallister
85. “Mom, does Santa Claus have to go through customs?” – Brooke McCallister
86. “Fuller, go easy on the Pepsi.” – Aunt Leslie
87. “You’re what the French call ‘les incompetents.’” – Linnie McCallister
88. “I wouldn’t let you sleep in my room if you were growing on my ass!” – Buzz McCallister
89. “Buzz, your girlfriend. Woof!” – Kevin McCallister
90. “It’s Christmas Eve. Good deeds count extra tonight. Think of an important thing you can do for others, and go do it. Just follow the star in your heart.” – Bird Lady
91. “How could you have Christmas without a Christmas tree, Mom?” – Kevin McCallister
92. “I don’t want any presents. Instead, I want to take back every mean thing I ever said to my family. Even if they don’t take back the things they said to me. I don’t care. I love all of them.” – Kevin McCallister
93. “You can mess with a lot of things, but you can’t mess with kids on Christmas.” – Kevin McCallister
94. “I know I don’t deserve a Christmas, even if I did do a good deed.” – Kevin McCallister
95. “This is Christmas! The season of perpetual hope!” – Kate McCallister
96. “Well you got your wish last year, maybe you’ll get it again this year.” – Kate McCallister
97. “Why do we have to go to Florida? There’s no Christmas trees in Florida.” – Kevin McCallister
