How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Citizen Cane.
Quote #1
In the same position appears the tiny figure of Charles Foster Kane, aged five (almost like an animated cartoon). He is in the act of throwing a snowball.
As a little boy, Charles Kane hardly had a care in the world. He was happy to just play in the snow outside his mother's boarding house. But that all changed the day Mr. Thatcher showed up and took him away from his parents.
Quote #2
MRS. KANE: Be careful, Charles!
Mrs. Kane cares deeply about her son and it's clear that his departure hurts her badly. But in the end, she thinks she's doing the right thing by sending him away to be educated in New England. She wants him to be a great man and doesn't think that will happen if he spends too much time around his no-good father.
Quote #3
KANE SR.: Well, I don't hold with signing my boy away to any bank as guardian just because—
Mr. Kane isn't happy about sending his son away from home. In his opinion, he's the boy's father and he should have final say about what happens to him. But since all of the family money belongs to his wife, he doesn't really get to say anything about Charles' leaving home.