142 Movie Quotes about History (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

Memorable quotes about history, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources 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.

Quote from 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 A little revolution, now and then, is a healthy thing, don't you think?

Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October

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

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

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

Quote from 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.

Quote from 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)