147 Movie Quotes about History (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Mar 2, 2026

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.

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

Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in Apollo 13

42 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

43 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 as Leslie Edwards in Almost Heroes (1998)

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

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

45 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)

46 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

47 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

48 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

49 History remembers kings! Not soldiers.

Brian Cox as Agamemnon in Troy

50 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