145 Movie Quotes about History (+ Sound Clips) - page 12

Updated: Oct 13, 2025

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.

111 What if the worst, the most horrifying biological attack in this country's history was not the work of religious extremists?

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

112 The rest, as they say, is history.

Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

113 And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend, legend became myth.

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

114 Oh, yeah, I remember. I sat next to you in history.

Chris Farley as Tommy Callahan in Tommy Boy (1995)

115 Now look. I've listened to you very patiently. I've heard your whole life's history.

Claire Trevor as Mary McCloud in Dark Command (1940)

116 If you'd take the time to study your country's history, you'd be the first to admit it.

John Wayne as Sean Thornton in The Quiet Man (1952)

117 If you knew your country's history as well as you claim to know it, you'd know that they haven't been beaten west of the Shannon for the last 22 years.

John Wayne as Sean Thornton in The Quiet Man (1952)

118 We will simply erase history from the time that machinery and weapons threatened more than they offered.

Charlton Heston as Robert Neville in The Omega Man (1971)

119 I'm working on history. I'm working on the past.

John Candy as Buck Russell in Uncle Buck (1989)

120 You're talking ancient history.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid in Total Recall (1990)

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