305 Life Lessons Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 29

Updated: Jul 18, 2026

A selection of life lessons quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

281 He who ate my bread and called me father would make rebellion against me.

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

282 I ran away. It's always a mistake, isn't it? I mean, you have to face things in the end.

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

283 Oh, man, you made me miss the woman. She's gone. -Man, I did you a good favor, brother. -Did me a favor? -That's worse than dope and alcohol. That white woman, that's man's trick. That's worse than alcohol.

Drew Bundini Brown in The Greatest (1977)

284 But to the cruelty of fate, the wise surrender. -I never have. And it's too late in life for me to learn how.

Quote from Duel of the Titans (1961)

285 My father used to say, It's a funny thing, but the things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening. I told you he drank like a fish.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

286 What do you expect to do with your money? Bury it with you? If you do, they'll dig you up and steal it.

Quote from Phantom of the Opera (1943)

287 You know, gold ain't like stones in a river bed. It don't cry out to be picked up. You got to know how to recognize it. And finding it ain't all... not by a long shot. You got to know how to tickle it so she'll come out laughing.

Walter Huston as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

288 You all right? -Well, sometimes I get a little dizzy looking down. -Don't look down.

Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode; Mary-Louise Parker as Ruth Jamison in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

289 Hey, did I ever tell you the story about the oysters? All the millions of 'em just lying around... -And God put sand in one of 'em, and it makes a pearl. -Oh...

Mary Stuart Masterson as Idgie Threadgoode in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

290 Mama always said that dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994)