142 Movie Quotes about History (Sound Clips) - page 5

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.

41 When the history books are written, Lewis and Clark will be but a footnote to a footnote, and I, sir, will be the note!

Matthew Perry in Almost Heroes (1998)

42 English history. It's always fascinated me: Cromwell, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper.

Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

43 Oh, this is one of those days which the pages of history teaches are best spent lying in bed.

Roland Young as Uncle Willie in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

44 This ain't one body's story. It's the story of us all. We got it mouth-to-mouth, so you got to listen it and 'member because what you hears today you got to tell the birthed tomorrow.

Helen Buday as Savannah Nix in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

45 I'm looking behind us now, across the count of time, down the long haul, into history back.

Helen Buday as Savannah Nix in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

46 Under the terms of the Roman occupancy, we're entitled to be crucified in a purely Jewish area. -Pharisees separate from Sadducees. -And Swedish separate from Welsh!

Quote from Monty Python's Life of Brian

47 History remembers kings! Not soldiers.

Brian Cox as Agamemnon in Troy

48 What was that thing he said? That thing King Leonidas said. 'Go tell the Spartans now that passeth by that here obedient to their laws we lie'.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

49 There are plenty worse places to be than the Old West. I could have ended up in the Dark Ages. They probably would have burned me at the stake as a heretic or something.

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

50 A magician looks into this crystal, and sees and hears halfway across the world. Aha, says man, if only it could be so. And centuries from now he conjures up miracles, but calls them radio and television.

Harry Morgan as Carolinus in The Flight of Dragons (1982)