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.
Could it be from Black Snake Moan with Samuel Jackson, it is said by the pastor character at the end when Christina Ricci’s character and Justin Timberlake’s character are marrying.