142 Movie Quotes about History (Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 Was that what it was like in the old days, Will? Everybody riding out, shooting... Smoke all over the place, folks yelling, bullets whizzing by? -I guess so.

Schofield Kid in Unforgiven

52 But did you bleed him? -Aesculapius says that bleeding is not a cure. It is only a way of proving that you are a physician at the expense of your patient.

Quote from Ulysses (1954)

53 How does an empire die? Does it collapse in one terrible moment? No. No! But there comes a time when its people no longer believe in it. Then, then does an empire begin to die.

Quote from The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

54 Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse. It's confusing enough, for heaven's sakes.

Archimedes in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

55 The past is always full of shadows. Don't ever forget that.

Quote from Duel of the Titans (1961)

56 I experienced the '60s. -No, I think you had two '50s and moved right on into the '70s.

Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989)

57 It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Well, they will tremble again at the sound of our silence.

Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October

58 A great day, comrades. We sail into history.

Sean Connery as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October

59 Because when I was young and I'd get an A on a history test or whatever, I'd get this good feeling about all the things that I could be. And then I never became any of them.

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

60 While you Americans, you are fighting for the biggest nothing in history.

Quote from Apocalypse Now