145 Movie Quotes about History (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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.

11 Now I may have seriously altered history.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part III

12 A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

13 But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game. It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.

James Earl Jones as Terence Mann in Field of Dreams (1989)

14 Halloween. The festival of Samhain. The last great one took place 3000 years ago and the hills ran red with the blood of animals and children. -Sacrifices.

Dan O'Herlihy as Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

15 Indiana... we are simply passing through history. This... This is history.

Paul Freeman as Dr. René Belloq in Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark

16 Your chance to make history, become the man who stole the moon!

Steve Carell as Gru in Despicable Me

17 You must listen. What I'm about to tell you will change the course of history.

Morgan Freeman as Vitruvius in The Lego Movie (2014)

18 An enigma and a mystery in Mesoamerican history the quintessence of perfection that is he.

David Spade as Emperor Kuzco in The Emperor's New Groove

19 Well, the past, man's past, is mainly a grim struggle for survival. But there have been moments when a few voices have spoken up and these rare moments have made the history of man, man's past, a glorious thing.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

20 It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

145 Movie Quotes about History (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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