History quotes

- Scott: "One riot, one Ranger". You ever heard that?
- Laura Newton: Leonidas, King of Sparta... when a neighboring state would plead for military aid, would send one man.
Val Kilmer - Scott
Kristen Bell - Laura Newton

The Industrial Revolution to me is just like a story I know called "The Puppy Who Lost His Way". The world was changing, and the puppy was getting... bigger.

Adam Sandler - Billy Madison

“- Deacon Frost: Tonight the age of man comes to an end. No more compromises.
- Quinn: We're gonna be Gods.”
Stephen Dorff - Deacon Frost
Donal Logue - Quinn

“History is about to be made and you're all a part of it. Not an equal part, of course, but an important part nonetheless.”
Treat Williams - Xander Drax

“- Dr. John Dolittle: I didn't say you were crazy, you're special, and crazy, a lot of great people in history were crazy.
- Maya Dolittle: Like who?
- Dr. John Dolittle: Some of the greatest people in history.”
Eddie Murphy - Dr. John Dolittle
Kyla Pratt - Maya Dolittle

“- Shale: I'd like to know what area of history you're studying.
- Student: The fuck you history!”
Tom Berenger - Jonathan Shale
Simon Ricky - Student

“- O'Brien: Do you consider yourself a man?
- Winston Smith: Yes.
- O'Brien: If you're a man, Winston, you're the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you realize that you are alone? You are outside history. You unexist.”
Richard Burton - O'Brien
Sir John Hurt - Winston Smith

“The truth was, in 1914, Germany doesn't want war. Yeah, there's an arms race, but it's Britain who's leading it. So, why does no one admit this?”
Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“A fiery horse across the plains and he was gone from sight. He changed to course of history as he rode. And folks would tell of one Lone Ranger turning wrong from right. They wondered who, but they never knew... the Man in the Mask.”
Merle Haggard - Balladeer

“Alex! You're walking away from history! History! Did Chris Columbus say he wanted to stay home? No.”
Robert Preston - Centauri

“- Willingham: Just a few quick questions to probe your knowledge of English history...
- Ralph: Fine.
- Willingham: When she failed to give him a son, Henry VIII had Anne Boleyn...?
- Ralph: Look into adoption?
- Willingham: Beheaded.”

Peter O'Toole - Willingham
John Goodman - Ralph

“Many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.”
Stanley Tucci - Abraham Erskine

“History is not a class struggle, it is a vision struggle. It's people like me trying to get free from narrow-minded pricks like you. Nothing moves without us, we're the goddamn engine.”
Ben Kingsley - Charles Hatton

“One of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”
Stephen Campbell Moore - Tom Irwing

“No one of us knows what will happen. I don't have to remind you that we are people with a noble history. You are expected to carry on that history with complete devotion and self-sacrifice. I think you'll do that.”

Paul Guilfoyle - Iakin

That particular Starfighter game was supposed to be delivered to Vegas, not some flea-speck trailer park in the middle of tumbleweeds and tarantulas. So it must be fate, destiny, blind chance, luck even, that brings us together. And as the poet said, "the rest is history".
Robert Preston - Centauri

“There was a time, not very long ago, where we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was 1916, and my son, Nicholas, was the czar of Imperial Russia.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - The Dowager Empress Marie

“- Louise: Why, that was pure genius!
- Leonardo: Yes! I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!”

Matyelok Gibbs - Louise
Patrick Godfrey - Leonardo

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge 
that you'll grow out of it.”
Doris Day

“- Ted: Our first guest speaker comes from the year 400 BC, a time when most of the world looked like the cover of the Led Zeppelin album, Houses of the Holy.
- Bill: We were there. There were many steps and columns. It was most tranquil.
- Ted: He is sometimes known as the father of modern thought. He was the teacher of Plato, who was in turn...” (continue)(continue reading)
Keanu Reeves - Ted 'Theodore' Logan
Alex Winter - Bill S. Preston

“Soon I'll have reached out to and influenced more people than anybody in the history of this planet, save God himself. And the best he ever managed was the Sermon on the Mount.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver

“- Morgan Hess: We have to tape this.
[he gets a tape, but Bo Hess grabs it and hugs it to her]
- Bo Hess: My ballet recital!
- Morgan Hess: Listen, Bo. This is very important. Everything people have written about in science books is going to change. The history of the world's future is on the TV right now. We need to record this so you can show...” (continue)(continue reading)

Rory Culkin - Morgan Hess
Abigail Breslin - Bo Hess

“When people ask me if all this was true, well, like I say, if you're looking for facts, pick up the history book - just be sure to check who wrote it.”

Danny Huston - Orson Welles

First there was darkness. Then came the Strangers. They were a race as old as time itself. They had mastered the ultimate technology. The ability to alter physical reality by will alone. They called this ability "Tuning".

Kiefer Sutherland - Dr. Schreber

“History is full of very sick people, who suddenly, for no reason at all, get better. And when that happens we call it a miracle. From the moment I met you I knew you were special, and that you might be one of those people. You know I'm tellin' you the truth, don'tcha? You can feel that inside ye, can'tcha? So don't let me down, okay? I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Davison - Dr. Stevens