49 Movie Quotes about Progress (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Aug 19, 2025

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

11 He's embracing the future there, and you're just holding us back. -I hold you back, all right. From extinction.

Eugene Levy as Lou; Garry Shandling as Verne in Over the Hedge

12 Like I told you, there's a lot of new angles. Things move faster, 10 years faster. Everything's streamlined, you know what I mean? We get to the point quicker. Getting it?

Lionel Stander as Curly in The Last Gangster

13 A dark age, indeed! Age of inconvenience. No plumbing. No electricity. No nothing.

Karl Swenson as Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

14 You again? You made any progress?

Quote from Born Invincible (1978)

15 Our situation has not improved.

Sean Connery as Henry Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

16 Your civilization has not progressed beyond destruction, war and violence against yourselves and others.

Gerald Mohr as Thomas O’Bannion in The Angry Red Planet

17 This is 19-aught-1. The old days are gone. You don't know it. We've got waterworks, telephones, lights.

Harry Morgan as Marshal Thibido in The Shootist

18 Face the fact, Sergeant. This is a new era. The future has arrived.

Charles Bronson as Albert Johnson in Death Hunt

19 You're going at it all wrong, son. You're just a beginner. You gotta start small and work up. You can't start at the top.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

20 Now, wait a minute, son. You paid no attention. You're starting too big. You gotta walk before you can run.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

49 Movie Quotes about Progress (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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