113 Metaphor Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 11

Updated: Jul 28, 2026

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

101 What are those? -Little black flowers that grow in the sky.

Dana Andrews as Fred Derry; Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

102 Heaven isn't too far. -Heaven is where you are.

Jodi Benson as Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994)

103 Oh, lucky Paris. You could fall in the black pit of Hades and come out with your arms full of sunshine.

Harry Andrews as Hector Of Troy in Helen of Troy (1956)

104 I was looking... up at the 102nd floor. It was the nearest thing to heaven. You see, you were there.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

105 I knew there was a core of something... well there is a core, and now I know what it is. A sponge. And to soak it full you'll do anything that's ruthless, selfish, dishonest.

Jane Wyman as Helen St. James in The Lost Weekend (1945)

106 We've wounded this mountain. It's our duty to close her wounds. The least we can do to show our gratitude for all the wealth she's given us.

Walter Huston as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

107 Mother? Oh, I see. It's Africa. It's your mother.

Dylan Walsh as Peter Elliott in Congo (1995)

108 It's not the lash they fear... it is my divine power.

Rodrigo Santoro as King Xerxes in 300

109 The music comes down in the darkness, distills it. Cleanses it of the suffering that made it. And it's all beauty.

Claude Rains as Erique Claudin in Phantom of the Opera (1943)

110 Step down off your high horse, mister. You don't get lard less'n you boil the hog.

John Wayne as Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)