My Babylon 5 Quotes Page
"Would you prefer to conscious or unconsious during the mating?  I would prefer conscious, but I don't know what your...pleasure threshold is."                                                                                                                               - G'Kar to Lyta

"Mr. Garibaldi, you're sitting at my station, using my equipment.  Is there a reason for this or should I just go ahead and snap your hands off at the wrist?"                                                                                                                       -Ivanova

"We should have wiped out you kind when we had the chance."         -Londo

"What happened - run out of small children to butcher?"       -G'Kar

"I confess that I look forward to the day when we have cleansed the universe of the Centauri and carved their bones into little flutes for Narn children."                                                                                                                          -G'Kar  
                   
"I hate to alarm you, but your trousers are talking to you."      -Catherine to Sinclair

"I think I'll just walk to and fro for a while, maybe over to my console. After that, maybe I'll try pacing fro and to, you know, just for the kick of it."       -Ivanova

"What do you want?"          -Mr. Morden

"No 'boom' today.  'Boom' tomorrow.  There's always a 'boom' tomorrow."                                                                                                                    -Ivanova

"Fools to he left of me, Feeders to the right."          -Londo

"On your way back I'd like you to take the time to learn the B5 mantra:  Ivanova is always right.  I will listen to Ivanova.  I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations.  Ivanova is God.  And, if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!"                 -Ivanova

"What better way to go out than in the cause for advancing scientific knowledge?"                                                                                                                   -Dr. Tasaki
"Is this a multiple choice question, because I have some ideas."     -Ivanova

"If I were a landing thruster, which one of these would I be?     -Londo

"I am Grey - I stand between the candle and the star.  We are Grey - We stand between the darkness and the light."            -Delenn

"We live for the One.  We would die for the One."        -Zathras

"You take - Zathras die.  You leave - Zathras die.  Either way, it is bad for Zathras."                                                                                                               -Zathras

"And if your not happy with the seating arrangements, I will personally order your seats to be moved outside, down the hall, across the station, and into the fusion reactor!  Am I absolutely, perfectly clear?"           -Ivanova

"The last time I made 'personal contact' with a Minbari warship, I sent it straight to Hell."                                                                                                  -Sheridan

"One deserts his post withour any explanation, the other one picks the most breathtakingly inconvenient moment possible to explore new career opportunities - like becoming a butterfly!"                  -Londo about G'Kar and Delenn

"The future isn't what it used to be."              -G'Kar

"Stay close to the Vorlon, and watch out for Shadows - they move when your not looking."             -Sinclair to Garibaldi

"Maybe someone should've labeled the future, 'some assembly required'."                                                                                                    -Garibaldi to Franklin

"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."                 -Kosh

"I'd like to live long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price.  I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave - like this.  Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?"             -Vir

"Does the phrase, 'No way in hell', ring a bell?"          -Ivanova

"I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarrented attack.  I'm sorry that your crew were stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including  your own people.  And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell.  After all, it's the thought that counts."                  -Sheridan

"I can put a bucket on my head and pretend to be the ancient Vorlon god Booji."                                                                                                             -Marcus

"As of this moment Babylon 5 is seceding from the Earth Alliance. We will remain an independent state until President Clark is removed from office."         -Sheridan

"Only one Human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet.  He is behind me:  you are in front of me.  If you value your lives, be somewhere else."       -Delenn

"Is there anyone along our border with whom we are not currently at war?"                                                                                                                -Londo to Refa

"I do not like insects.  I do not like little brown things with eight legs.  I do not likee anything with eight legs...well, except for the Vinzini, but only because they are terrible at cards.  Something to do with compound eyes, I think."             -Londo
   
"Do not thump the Book of G'Quan - it is disrespectful."             -G'Kar

"Why is everything around here a long story?  Why isn't anything a short story - a paragraph?"            -Garibaldi

"Initiating 'Getting the hell out of here' manoeuver."          -Lennier

"Engines at full...high power, hatrack ratcatcher, to port weapons...brickbat lingerie."                                                                                  -Ivanova's attempt at Minbari

"I'm sorry, we thought you  were dead."             -Drazi
"I was - I'm better now."                                   -Sheridan

"When I said my quarters were cold I did not mean: 'Oh I think it's a little chilly in here, I think I'll put a blanket on the bed.'  No I said it was cold, as in:  'Oh look, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle and shattered on the floor!.'"        -Londo

"The guards resisted at first...I managed to explain matters to them.  They will recover in time."               -Lennier

"Whoo - Hoo?"               -Lennier

"From now on, Earth stands alone.  We're taking back Proxima III.  We're taking back Mars.  Then we're going to take back our home - or die trying."             -Sheridan

"I don't always like the way Londo does things - me and most civilized worlds - but, you know, sometimes he's right, so I force myself to give him the benefit of the doubt."                                                                                                                -Vir

"Who am I?  I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov.  I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth.  I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see.  God sent me."                -Ivanova

"Death?  Been there, done that."               -Sheridan to Bester

"Delenn has a fascinating proposal for you all.  I hope you have brought a change of underwear - you will need it after you have read this."         -Londo

"You do not make history, you can only hope to survive it."       -G'Kar

"Oh go away.  Repress someone else."          -G'Kar to Londo

"When the darkness comes, if you ever have doubt about your actions, all you need do is look into the face of a Vorlon.  Once you see that, all doubt is erased forever."                                                                                                                  -Dukhat

"The quiet ones are the ones that change the universe...the loud ones only take the credit."            -Londo

"They changed the universe, but in doing so paid a terrible price."      -Londo

"When they ran out of ships, they used guns.  When they ran out of guns they used knives, and sticks and bare hands.  They were magnificent."                                                                                                                          -Londo about Humanity

"The story is not over yet.  The story is never over."          -Londo

"Ivanova's Rule #34:  Always make sure that whatever looks dead, stays dead, and will not have any ideas about not being dead at any time in the foreseeable future."                                                                                                                -Ivanova

"It was the end of the Earth year 2261, and it was the dawn of a new age for all of us.  It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.  The next 20 years would see great changes: great joy and great sorrow, the Telepath war, and the Drakh war.  The new Alliance would waver and crack, but in the end it would hold, because what is built endures, and what is loved endures, and Babylon 5...Babylon 5 endures."                                                                                                -Delenn at the end of Season 4

"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations.  There would never be another.  It changed the future, and it changed us.  It taught us that we have to create the future, or others will do it for us.  It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will?  And that true strength sometimes come from the most unlikely places.  Mostly I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us."           -Ivanova at the end of SiL

"These are your sons and your daughters, whose loyalty has ever wavered, whose belief in the Alliance has forced us to take extraordinary means.  For justice, for peace, for the future...we have come home."           -Sheridan
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