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Hello. I’m Forrest. Forrest Gump.-Forrest

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What’s normal anyways?-Mrs. Gump

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Run, Forrest, run!-Jenny

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I just felt like runnin’.-Forrest

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It happens.-Forrest

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Stupid is as stupid does.-Forrest

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

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

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Forrest Gump: What’s my destiny, Mama?

Mrs. Gump: You’re gonna have to figure that out for yourself.-

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My Mama always told me that miracles happen every day. Some people don’t think so, but they do.-Forrest

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You can’t be doin’ this, Forrest. You can’t keep tryin’ to rescue me all the time.-Jenny

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Jenny, I don’t know if Momma was right or 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 think maybe it’s both. Maybe both is happening at the same time.-Forrest

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

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You know it’s funny what a young man recollects? ‘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

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My mama always said, dyin’ was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn’t.-Forrest

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And ‘cause I was a gazillionaire, and I liked doing it so much, I cut that grass for free.-Forrest

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Young Jenny Curran: What’s wrong with your legs?

Young Forrest: Um, nothing at all, thank you. My legs are just fine and dandy.-

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Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kababs, 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

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I wanna go home.-Bubba

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The really good thing about meeting the President of the United States is the food. They put you in this little room with just about anything you’d want to eat or drink. But since, number one, I wasn’t hungry, but thirsty, and number two, they was free, I must have drank me about fifteen Dr. Peppers.-Forrest

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Forrest Gump: Those must be comfortable shoes, I bet you could walk all day in shoes like those and not feel a thing. I wish I had shoes like that. Nurse at Bus Bench: My feet hurt. Forrest Gump: Mama always said there’s an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they’re going, where they’ve been. I’ve worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they’d take me anywhere. She said they was my magic shoes.-Forrest

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Lt. Dan Taylor: Have you found Jesus yet, Gump?

Forrest Gump: I didn’t know I was supposed to be looking for him, sir.-

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That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d run to the end of the town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I’d just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since run this far, maybe I’d just run across the great state of Alabama. And that’s what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on goin’. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I’d gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on goin’. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I’d gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on goin’.-Forrest

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You can sit here if you want.-Jenny

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

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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

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Sometimes, I guess there just aren’t enough rocks.-Forrest

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Don’t ever let anybody tell you they’re better than you, Forrest. If God intended everybody to be the same, he’d have given us all braces on our legs.-Mrs. Gump

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

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The really good thing about meeting the President of the United States is the food. They put you in this little room with just about anything you’d want to eat or drink. But since, number one, I wasn’t hungry, but thirsty, and number two, they was free, I must have drank me about fifteen Dr. Peppers.-Forrest

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