142 Movie Quotes about History (Sound Clips) - page 7

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.

61 Primitive man lived and died by his harvest. The purpose of his spring ceremonies was to ensure a plentiful autumn.

Edward Woodward as Sgt. Neil Howie in The Wicker Man (1973)

62 I'd like to be an explorer, like the great Magellan. -Oh. You're too late. There's really nothing left to explore.

Truman Burbank in The Truman Show

63 If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained.

Quote from Jurassic Park

64 It's a great day. I tell you, it's the greatest day in the history of Texas.

Quote from The Westerner (1940)

65 Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive.

Quote from The Matrix

66 That recording was made by Krell musicians a half a million years ago.

Quote from Forbidden Planet (1956)

67 We have nailed our names in the pages of history enough for today.

Quote from Full Metal Jacket

68 Now, if they can prove those scrolls don't tell the whole truth of your history, if they can find some real evidence of another culture from some remote past, will you let them off?

Quote from Planet of the Apes (1968)

69 Palermo's the most conquered city in history. First, the Phoenicians, the Romans, Carthaginians, the Byzantines. Then came the Arabs, Spaniards, Neapolitans.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

70 Now I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the right moment of history, in exactly the right place.

Quote from Patton (1970)