147 Movie Quotes about History (+ Sound Clips) - page 10

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about history, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

91 Fellow citizens, you're all aware of our town's proud history.

Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen in Cars

92 Yes, sir, we've been in there dodging left hooks since before History began to walk.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

93 Your types are as old as history.

Quote from Meet John Doe (1941)

94 Those great echoing galleries, where so much of English history has been made.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

95 But that's history. I'm here, he's not.

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)

96 Oh, that's wonderful, Tony. Real contribution to human history.

Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)

97 Yeah, well, history is gonna change.

Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly in Back to the Future

98 Will you kindly pay attention to your history lesson.

Kathryn Beaumont as Alice in Alice in Wonderland (1951)

99 In the history of science, innovative concepts occasionally arise from sudden left-field inspiration.

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

100 In the First World War and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations, using the crude weapons of those days.

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of the Worlds (1953)