142 Movie Quotes about History (Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people than with your image in the history books.

George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove

32 It's the worst thing that is ever happened in the history of human events.

Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams in Addams Family Values

33 What's she doing? -Learning our history, the last 5000 years that she's missed.

Ian Holm as Vito Cornelius in The Fifth Element

34 The complete history of the American buffalo. It, too, is becoming extinct.

Katharine Hepburn as Bunny Watson in Desk Set (1957)

35 You have secured for yourself a place in the history books.

Quote from Battlestar Galactica (1978)

36 Gentlemen, we're history.

George Carlin as Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

37 These are the circuits of history, gentlemen. They'll take us to any point in time we wish.

George Carlin as Rufus in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

38 The rabbit's not like us. It has no history books, no photographs no knowledge of sorrow or regret.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko

39 Perhaps never in human history has the entire world been united by such a global drama.

Quote from Apollo 13

40 I've gotten a map of Africa, and I've seen how, from its wide northern top to its southern end, the empires of Europe have carved it into little pieces.

Quote from Destination Freedom