Forrest Gump Quotes

Jenny Curran: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: [Nervously] I sit next to them in my Home Economics class...

Mrs. Gump: You have to do the best with what God gave you.

Forrest Gump: He was from a long great military tradition. Somebody from his family had fought and died in every single American war. I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to.

Jenny Curran: Forrest, I'm sick.
Forrest Gump: Do you have a cough due to cold?

Forrest Gump: My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

Forrest Gump: When I was in China on the All - American Ping Pong team, I just loved playing ping-pong with my Flexolite ping pong paddle.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?
Forrest Gump: I didn't know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: I never thanked you for saving my life.

Jenny Curran: Have you ever been with a girl, Forrest?
Forrest Gump: I sit next to them in my Home Economics class all the time.

Forrest Gump: Sometimes, I guess there's just not enough rocks.

Mrs. Gump: Life's a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

Bubba: Have you ever been on a shrimp boat?
Forrest Gump: No, but I've been on a real big boat.

Forrest Gump: I'm sorry I had to fight in the middle of your Black Panther party.

Forrest Gump: Mama says they was magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.

Forrest Gump: Hello. I'm Forrest, Forrest Gump.
Recruit Officer: Nobody gives a hunky shit who you are, pus ball. You're not even a low-life, scum - sucking maggot. Get your ass on the bus, you're in the army now!

Forrest Gump: Mama always said, dying was a part of life.

Forrest Gump: Her dream had come true. She was a folk singer.

Bubba: My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that?
Forrest Gump: My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump: I'm sorry I ruined your New Year's Eve party, Lieutenant Dan. She tasted like cigarettes.

[Forrest has just graduated from college]
Recruit Officer: Have you given any thought to your future, son?
Forrest Gump: 'Thought'?

Young Forrest Gump: Mama. What's vacation?
Mrs. Gump: Vacation's when you go somewhere... and you never come back.

Forrest Gump: What's my destiny, Mama?
Mrs. Gump: You're gonna have to figure that out for yourself.

Jenny Curran: Can I have a ride?
Pickup-Truck Driver: Where are you going?
Jenny Curran: I don't care.

Forrest Gump: The best thing about visiting the President is the food! Now, since it was all free, and I wasn't hungry but thirsty, I must've drank me fifteen Dr. Peppers.

Forrest Gump: [To Jenny] They're sendin' me to Vietnam... [Jenny is despondent]
Forrest Gump: ...It's this whole 'nuther country.

Forrest Gump: We was always taking long walks, and we was always looking for a guy named 'Charlie'.

Forrest Gump: Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.

Jenny Curran: Why are you so good to me?
Forrest Gump: You're my girl!
Jenny Curran: [Pause] I'll always be your girl.

Forrest Gump: When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.
Elderly Southern Woman on Park Bench: And so, you just ran?
Forrest Gump: Yeah.

Forrest Gump: [Forrest narrating] Jenny taught me how to climb. And I taught her how to dangle.