"We all had a drink. Except for the cat, and that's important. The water tasted like... heaven. It floated over your tongue like a cloud. Tuck carved a T in the trunk and we moved on west to find a place to settle down. We put up a house for Mae and Tuck and a little shed for Jesse and me. That was the first time we figured there was something... peculiar. Jesse fell thirty feet and landed on is neck. He was up on his feet before Mae could work up a good cry. Didn't hurt him a bit, no broken bones... nothing. But that's not all... not by a long shot. Things began to happen. Some brush-poppers mistook Mae's horse for a deer. Thing is, the bullets didn't kill him. Barely even left a mark. Then Tuck got bitten by a rattlesnake, and you know what... he didn't die. But the cat did, of old age. And Miles got married. Tuck figured it early on. It was the spring. We all drank from it, even the horse. It had to be... the source of our changelessness. I begged her to come back... to me and find the spring and drink from it. The children, too. It was our only hope... to be together. She'd made up her mind that I'd... sold my soul to the devil. And she left me. She took my babies with her. Everyone... pulled away after that. There was talk of witchcraft... and... black magic. I went lookin' for wars to fight... and I saw brave men die at Vera Cruz. And then Gettysburg. Thousands of them in the blink of an eye. But not me. I couldn't die. Like Little Anna. The influenza took her before she was fifteen. And Bo. He'd be almost eighty now if he were still alive. And my sweet... my sweet young bride. She died in an insane asylum. Old and alone. But I'm still here... I'm still here."

"If there's one thing I've learned about people, many will do anything — anything — not to die. And they'll do anything to keep them living their life."

"How am I supposed to take you home when I can't make my feet move from this spot? If I could die tomorrow I would, just so I could spend one more night with you."

"Tuck said it to Winnie the summer she turned 15: Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live. And she did."

"For some, time passes slowly, an hour can seem an eternity. For others, there's never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist."

"Winnie Foster was to be sent 500 miles away to be educated, but what her parents didn't understand was that she only wanted to step outside her fence... so she did. What in these quiet woods should be so forbidden? Winnie had always sensed a mystery waiting for her there."

"For some, time passes slowly, an hour can seem an eternity. For others, there's never enough. For the Tucks, it didn't exist."

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

"Haley Joel Osment - Forrest Gump Jr."

"Sonny Shroyer - Paul "Bear" Bryant"

"Siobhan Fallon Hogan - Dorothy Harris"

"Sally Field - Mrs. Gump"

"Mykelti Williamson - Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue"

"Gary Sinise - Lieutenant Dan Taylor"

"Robin Wright Penn - Jenny Curran-Gump"

"Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't."

"Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump"

"You'll never sink this boat! [cackles madly] Come on! You call this a storm?! Come on, you son of a bitch! Blow! It's time for a showdown: You and me! I'm right here, come and get me! [cackles] You'll never sink...this...BOAT! [Cackles louder]"

"Now, you listen to me. We all have a destiny. Things don't just happen, it's all part of a plan."

"[to Jenny's grave] You died on a Saturday morning and I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. [begins to cry] He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. [puts letter at foot of tombstone] Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. [voice shakes] Jenny? Is that you? Jenny! I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away."

"[recalling saving Lt. Dan; we see him carrying Dan away through the jungle.] [narrating] Then it felt like somethin' just jumped up and bit me! [A muzzle flash is briefly visible from the trees as a gunshot rings out; Forrest is hit in the rear] OW! SOMETHING BIT ME!"

"Now, because I had been a football star, and a war hero, and a national celebrity, and a shrimpin' boat captain, and a college graduate, the city of fathers of Greenbow, Alabama, decided to get together and offered me a fine job. So I never went back to work for Lieutenant Dan, though he did take care of my Bubba-Gump money. He got me invested in some kind of fruit company. And so then I got a call from him saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said "That's good. One less thing." Now, Momma said there's only so much fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off. So, I gave a whole bunch of it to the Foursquare Gospel Church and I gave a whole bunch to the Bayou La Batre Fishing Hospital. And even though Bubba was dead, and Lieutenant Dan said I was nuts, I gave Bubba's momma Bubba's share. And you know what? She didn't have to work in nobody's kitchen no more. And 'cause I was gazillionaire and I liked doing it so much, I cut that grass for free. But at nighttime, when there was nothing to do and the house was all empty, I'd always think of Jenny. And then, she was there."

"[at Jenny and her boyfriend] You know what I think? I think you should go home to Greenbow, ALABAMA!"

"[About his injury in the war] They said it was a million-dollar wound, but the army must keep that money cuz I ain't seen a nickel of that million dollars."

"Yes, drill sergeant!"

"Now, when I was a baby, Momma named me after the great Civil War hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest. She said we was related to him in some way. And what he did was, he started up this club called the Ku Klux Klan. They'd all dress up in their robes and their bedsheets and act like a bunch of ghosts or spooks or something. They'd even put bedsheets on their horses and ride around. And anyway, that's how I got my name, Forrest Gump. Momma said that the Forrest part was to remind me that sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense."

"My Momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.""

"Clara Blandick – Aunt Em"

"Terry (credited as Toto) – Toto the Dog"

"– Nikko, the Wicked Witch's Head Winged Monkey"

"Charley Grapewin – Uncle Henry"

"Margaret Hamilton – Miss Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West"

"Billie Burke – Glinda"

"Jack Haley – Hickory/The Tin Man"

"Bert Lahr – Zeke/The Cowardly Lion"

"Ray Bolger – Hunk/The Scarecrow"

"Frank Morgan – Professor Marvel/Emerald City Doorman/Coachman/The Wizard's Guard/The Wizard"

"Judy Garland – Dorothy Gale"

"I would watch Wizard of Oz, like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me."

"It's a wonderful universal story. I mean you look at the Wizard of Oz — it takes a reality which is the beginning of the movie, and turns it into a mythology. … You know all great story telling is a form of myth."

"Mighty Miracle Show Of 1000 Delights!"

"Amazing Sights To See ! The Tornado . . . Munchkinland . . . Horse Of A Different Color . . . Startling Balloon Ascent . . . Flying Monkeys . . . Trees That Talk And Throw Apples."

"The Mighty Miracle Show That Is The Talk Of America!"

"Biggest Screen Sensation Since "Snow White"!"

"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Technicolor Triumph!"