History quotes
183 history quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the TV Series: House of Cards
“Not everyone can be on the right side of history.”
- From the TV Series: House of Cards
“Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.”
- From the movie: No Time to Die
“History isn’t kind to men who play God.”
- From the movie: I Am Not Your Negro
“It is not a racial problem. It's a problem of whether or not you're willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it. That great western house I come from is one house, and I am one of the children of that house. Simply, I am the most despised child of that house. And it is because the American people are...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: I Am Not Your Negro
“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it has been faced. History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we literally are criminals.”
- From the TV Series: Game of Thrones
“The true history of the world is the history of great conversations.”
- From the movie: 20th Century Women
“I think history has been tough on men.I mean, they can't be what they were,and they can't figure out what's next.”
- From the movie: One Night in Miami
“Your record is going to stand the test of time.”
- From the movie: One Night in Miami
“This movement that we are in is called The Struggle. Because we are fighting for our lives!”
- From the TV Series: Space Force
“I saw history being made and couldn’t resist being part of it.”
- From the movie: Mr. Jones
“There are cycles of history just like there are cycles of nature. There’s been nothing but war and depression and now is the chance to rebuild. To fight for the future.”
- From the TV Series: The Crown
“To do nothing is often the best course of action, but I know from personal experience how frustrating it can be. History was not made by those who did nothing.”
- From the movie: The Report
“Ever wonder why history repeats itself?”
- From the movie: House of Wax
“Here we have Joan of Arc - a favorite subject of mine.”
- From the movie: Overlord
- From the movie: The Front Runner
“- Lee Hart: Go on, Gary, say it.
- Gary Hart: There's going to be a story tomorrow about me.” - From the movie: The Nice Guys
“You know who else was just following orders? Adolf Hitler.”
- From the movie: Free State of Jones
“- Colonel Robert Lowry: They pulled all of Jones, Jasper, Perry and half of Smith County.
- Chester: How is that even possible?” - From the movie: Iris
- From the movie: Experimenter
“How do civilized human beings participate in destructive, inhumane acts? How was genocide implemented so systematically, so efficiently? And how did the perpetrators of these murders live with themselves?”
- From the movie: The Cable Guy
- Medieval Times Waitress: There were no utensils in Medieval times, hence there are no utensils at "Medieval Times". Now, would you like a refill on that Pepsi?
- Steven M. Kovacs: There were no utensils, but there was Pepsi?
- Medieval Times Waitress: Dude, I've got a lot of tables. - From the animation: The Simpsons
“- Lisa Simpson: History is written by the winners, Dad.
- Homer Simpson: I thought it was written by losers.” - From the movie: Everest
“- Beck Weathers: What do you do when you're not climbing, Doug?
- Doug Hansen: I deliver the mail.
- Beck Weathers: First mailman on Everest?
- Doug Hansen: Hope so!” - From the movie: Don Verdean
“If I can put that piece of the puzzle together, I can finally close the door on all this dinosaur nonsense, prove that that stuff never existed. Just a hodgepodge of different reptilian bones.”
- From the movie: Victor Frankenstein
“You shall be forgotten. That's right. History will bury you, Frankenstein, and no man will remember you name.”
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