History quotes

“Stories don't end. They only go their separate ways. We take leave of them. Not knowing what comes after.”
Holliday Grainger - Maria

“I can't listen to that much Wagner, you know? I start to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
Woody Allen - Larry Lipton

“What's history going to say about the movies? All those rows of seats facing a blank screen. Crazy!
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Robert Mitchum

“I don't think I'll ever understand why so few people care about history.”
Blake Lively - Adaline Bowman

“- Ben Gates:Whether by innate character or the oath you took to defend the Constitution or the weight of history that falls upon you, I believe you to be an honorable man, sir.
- The president: Gates, people don't believe that stuff anymore.
- Ben Gates: They want to believe it.”
Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates
Bruce Greenwood - The president

“Hey Schindler, leave no Jew behind!”

Jeremy Piven - Ari Gold

“This is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters.”
Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“At this moment of our civilization, we can create cybernetic individuals, who in just a few short years will be completely indistinguishable from us. Which leads to an obvious conclusion: we are the gods now.”

Guy Pearce - Peter Weyland

“We just finished poisoning the Earth and everyone was dead in a hundred years. Then what was the point of anything? Art, beauty (all gone), the Greeks, the Constitution, people dying for freedom, ideas. None of it meant anything? What about religion? Do we give up on God too?”

Terence Stamp - Chantilas

“I always wonder if people know when history's being made, and what they're doing at the time. This, for instance, could be a historic moment, and you're sipping a glass of ice water.”
Armand Assante - Dominic Cattano

“It is important to know what words mean, but it is important to remember that a thousand years from now, no matter who holds the power, history will be written in those words.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Reinhard Heydrich

“Welcome to the Spanish Inquisition.”

Marion Cotillard - Sophia Rikkin

“All the world's great civilizations have followed the same path. From bondage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy back to bondage. If we are to be the exception to history, then we must break the cycle, for those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Madeline Carroll - Molly Johnson

“The Lifestream courses through our Planet back and forth across the borders of life and death. If that cycle is the very truth of life then history, too, will inevitably repeat itself. So go on - bring your Jenovas and your Sephiroths. It won't matter. We'll do as life dictates and stop you every single time.”
Tôru Ohkawa - Rufus Shinra

Archeology is the search for fact, not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Dr. Tyree's Philosophy class is right down the hall. So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot.
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

“This seems to be the last chapter in the history of American involvement in Vietnam. It's also been the largest single movement of people in the history of America itself. Hilary Brown, ABC News, aboard the attack aircraft carrier, USS Hancock, in the South China Sea.”
Hilary Brown - Hilary Brown

“I've been called many things over many lifetimes: Ra, Krishna, Yahweh. I was there to spark and fan the flame of man's awakening, to spin the wheel of civilization.”
Oscar Isaac - Apocalypse

“- Connie Conehead: I think I'll have some Tang.
- Prymatt Conehead: Ah Tang, the drink astronauts took to the moon.
- Beldar Conehead: Astronauts to the moon?”
Michelle Burke - Connie Conehead
Jane Curtin - Prymatt Conehead
Dan Aykroyd - Beldar Conehead

“- Jones: Those pelts are stolen.
- Elk Dog: You all have stolen everything from us. Everything! The land. The animals.”
Lukas Haas - Jones
Duane Howard - Elk Dog

“To forget history is to allow evil to rise again.”
Billy Idol - Odin

“Below the skin of history are London's veins. These symbols, the mitre, the pentacle star, even someone as ignorant and degenerate as you can sense that they course with energy and meaning. I am that meaning. I am that energy.”
Sir Ian Holm - Sir William Gull

“It is time to change history.”
Gordon Currie - Nicolae Carpathia

“I've lived long enough to see the future become history. Empires crumble. There are no exceptions.”
Stuart Townsend - Dorian Gray

“After centuries of conflict, a truce was forged. Witches would be allowed to live and govern themselves if they followed one strict rule, that magic never be used against humans. But a truce is a fragile thing.”
Sir Michael Caine - Dolan 36th

Remember those two Jewish commandos who were sent to kill Hitler at 12:30? They waited in an alley with guns, bombs and knives... only Hitler didn't show up. After half an hour came and went, still no Hitler. Finally, one Jew turns to the other and says, "My God, I hope nothing happened to him".
Robin Williams - Tom Dobbs