70 Movie Quotes about Past (Sound Clips) - page 5

Last updated on: June 28, 2025

Memorable quotes about past, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on, so treasure memories, for what is gone is gone.

Red Skelton as Father Time in Rudolph's Shiny New Year

42 I'm looking behind us now, across the count of time, down the long haul, into history back.

Helen Buday as Savannah Nix in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

43 It's a nice town, knowing its past and sure of its future as it makes ready for the night and the predictable morning.

Richard Carlson as John Putnam in It Came from Outer Space

44 I know how hard it is to give up the past. I gave up a whole lifetime.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

45 Prior to this point in time, somewhere in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent creating an alternate 1985. Alternate to you, me and Einstein, but reality for everyone else.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II

46 Well, thanks. Nice talking to you. Maybe we'll bump into each other some time again in the future. -Or in the past.

Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II

47 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)

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

Quote from Duel of the Titans (1961)

49 Things that were, things that are, and some things that have not yet come to pass.

Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

50 You have a past. I have a past. And my past is no worse than yours. But you guys think you have the right to pass judgment!

Robert De Niro as Sam "Ace" Rothstein in Casino (1995)