50 Best Quotes from Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is an iconic movie that remains etched in people’s hearts. The movie presents a rollercoaster of emotions, tickling the audience with comical happenings and also making them sob with its more emotional scenes.

Forrest Gump includes several popular characters starting from Gump himself, Jenny, Bubba, Lieutenant Dan and more. These characters have their own moments throughout the film and vocalize quotes that are worth remembering.

This article will share with you the 50 best quotes from Forrest Gump movie that will inspire you, make you laugh, and also cause you to contemplate life more deeply.

1. “Mama always had a way of explaining things so I could understand them.” -Forrest Gump

2. “My mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” -Forrest Gump

"Stupid is as stupid does." -Forrest Gump

3. “Stupid is as stupid does.” -Forrest Gump

4. “Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There’s shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That, that’s about it.”– Bubba Blue

5. “One day it started raining, and it didn’t quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain… and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoot, it even rained at night..” -Forrest Gump

"Run, Forrest! Run!"- Jenny Curran

6. “Run, Forrest! Run!”– Jenny Curran

7. “Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company [Apple computer]. 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.” -Forrest Gump

8. “Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.” -Jenny Curran

9. “That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run.” -Forrest Gump

"What's normal anyways?" -Forrest Gump

10. “What’s normal anyways?” -Forrest Gump

11. “You have to do the best with what God gave you.” -Mrs. Gump

12. “Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain’t something you can find just around the corner. Bubba was going to be a shrimping boat captain, but instead, he died right there by that river in Vietnam.” -Forrest Gump

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

13. “I never thanked you for saving my life.” -Lieutenant Daniel Taylor

14. “There’s only so much fortune a man really needs, and the rest is just for showin’ off.” -Forrest Gump

15. “Why don’t you love me Jenny? I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.” -Forrest Gump

“Don’t ever let anybody tell you they’re better than you.” -Mrs. Gump

16. “Don’t ever let anybody tell you they’re better than you.” -Mrs. Gump

17. “Mama says they was my magic shoes. They could take me anywhere.” -Forrest Gump

18. “Sometimes, I guess there just aren’t enough rocks.” -Forrest Gump

19. “If you do not like my family and friends, I do not want to hear anything about it. They may mean nothing to you, but they mean everything to me.” -Forrest Gump

“Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?” -Lieutenant Daniel Taylor

20. “Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?” -Lieutenant Daniel Taylor

21. “Hello. My name’s Forrest, Forrest Gump. You want a chocolate?” -Forrest Gump

22. “You know it’s funny what a young man recollects? B‘cause I don’t remember bein’ born. I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.” -Forrest Gump

“Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.” -Forrest Gump

23. “Me and Jenny goes together like peas and carrots.” -Forrest Gump

24. “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 think maybe it’s both. Maybe both are happening at the same time.” -Forrest Gump

25. “My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.” -Forrest Gump

“God can hear my prayers, so I pray.” -Forrest Gump

26. “God can hear my prayers, so I pray.” -Forrest Gump

27. “Jenny Curran: His name’s Forrest.

Forrest Gump: Like me.

Jenny Curran: I named him after his daddy.

Forrest Gump: He got a daddy named Forrest, too?

Jenny Curran: You’re his daddy, Forrest.” -Jenny Curran and Forrest Gump

28. “If there’s anything you need, I won’t be far away.” -Forrest Gump

29. “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: And so, you just ran?

Forrest Gump: Yeah.” -Elderly Southern Woman and Forrest Gump

“Well, now we ain’t strangers anymore.” -Dorothy Harris

30. “Well, now we ain’t strangers anymore.” -Dorothy Harris

31. “Will you marry me? I’d make a good husband, Jenny.” -Forrest Gump

32. “You know why we’re a good partnership, Forrest? Cause we are watching out for one another like brothers and stuff.” -Forrest Gump

“They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money.” -Forrest Gump

33. “They said it was a million dollar wound, but the army must keep that money.” -Forrest Gump

34. “Mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where they’re going, where they’ve been.” -Forrest Gump

35. “My name’s Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.” -Forrest Gump

“The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks, is the free ice cream.” -Forrest Gump

36. “The only good thing about being wounded in the buttocks, is the free ice cream.” -Forrest Gump

37. “I was a national celebrity, famouser even than Captain Kangaroo.” -Forrest Gump

38. “You know what I think. I think you should go home to Greenbow, Alabama!” -Forrest Gump

39. “If we each have a destiny or if we’re all just floating around accidental like, on a breeze. But I think, maybe it’s both.” -Forrest Gump

“That’s all I have to say about that.” -Forrest Gump

40. “That’s all I have to say about that.” -Forrest Gump

41. “Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you’re gonna be?” -Jenny Curran

42. “When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.”-Forrest Gump

“Mama always said dyin’ was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.” -Forrest Gump

43. “Mama always said dyin’ was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.” -Forrest Gump

44. “Now you wouldn’t believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was goin’ somewhere, I was runnin’!” -Forrest Gump

45. “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

46. “Dear God, make me a bird. So I can fly far—far, far away from here.” -Forrest Gump

47. “I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d run to the end of town.” -Forrest Gump

48. “Some people don’t think miracles happen, well, they do.” -Forrest Gump

49. “I’d never named a boat before, but there was only one I could think of, the most beautiful name in the wide world.”  -Forrest Gump

“But you ain’t got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.” -Forrest Gump

50. “But you ain’t got no legs, Lieutenant Dan.” -Forrest Gump