142 Movie Quotes about History (Sound Clips) - page 8

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.

71 Do you know where U.S. history is? -Down the hall and turn left.

Quote from Fast Times at Ridgemont High

72 Well, we've got one historical figure here. Maybe we can go back and get some more.

Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esquire in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

73 Each Spartan protects the man to his left from thigh to neck with his shield.

Gerard Butler as King Leonidas in 300

74 6th century B.C., to be exact. Do you like the period? -Oh, I adore it.

Quote from True Lies

75 Sixty percent of you will not pass this course! How do I know? Because that is an historical fact!

Viggo Mortensen as Master Chief in G.I. Jane

76 In 1905 there were hundreds of professors renown for their study of the universe, but it was a 26-year-old Swiss patent clerk doing physics in his spare time who changed the world.

Quote from Good Will Hunting

77 Look, if history proves one thing, American history proves that everybody's got a chance to win. Didn't you guys ever hear of Valley Forge or Bunker Hill?

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky (1976)

78 Everybody, prepare yourselves. Kill the Manchus, protect the Shaolin. -Right! Kill the Manchus, protect the Shaolin! -Continue.

Quote from Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (1981)

79 You can't quit now, son! You come from a long line of fighting hawks! There was a hawk at Bunker Hill, with John Paul Jones! With Washington at Yorktown! And at Gettysburg!

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

80 The city's getting so big, it takes time to get around it. One of these days, we'll be walking across a bridge to Long Island City. -Walking? We'll be riding over in one of them horseless buggies. I'm thinking of buying one of them for me and Lou.

Quote from She Done Him Wrong (1933)