This quote popped into my head this morning but I can’t place where I’ve heard it. It was something I saw recently, so I think it was a new movie, though it could have been something shown on TV. A man is in a church, I think sitting in a pew talking to the priest. The man asks the priest, “How does that quote go? 'When I was a child I spoke as a child…?” and the priest replies by quoting the line “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” I think this was to show that the man was now going to either get revenge, or confess something, or protect his family, something big like that.
I looked on IMDB and no it’s **not **Hackers, The Mission or Horatio Hornblower as I have never seen any of those.
Some films I saw within the past months were Inglourious Basterds, District 9, The Time-Traveler’s Wife, Atonement & Ichi the Killer. Any of those sound right? It may have been a TV show.
Those exact circumstances were used in the season finale of Being Human. Right before the werewolf decided to take on the big bad of the season, a vampire. Could this be what you’re thinking of?
The only movie I REMEMBER using that quote was “North Dallas Forty,” in which the Tom Landry-esque coach (G.D. Spradlin) recites it to the Peter Gent-ish receiver (Nick Nolte).
This seems pretty familiar to me, and it may not be Sleepers but it seems like it was something similar. I almost think it might have been a comic-book based movie. I seem to recall the characters or at least the priest perhaps being Irish.