Quotes About Legacy

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death. I mean, if he can live on after he has died, then maybe he was a great man. To me the only success, the only greatness, is immortality.

She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.

If I were going to tell one of my sons how to possess the world, I would simply bring him into my house, show him that solid wall of books, and say to him: 'the secret is in there somewhere, and even if you never find out what it is, you will still have come closer.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine." Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.

He used to pimp and pull shakedowns. Now he rode shotgun to History.

I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them

IBM had its origins in Jacquard's endeavours in Revolutionary France. And indeed IBM is, indeed, a direct descendant of the work that went on in Jacquard's workshop during the last years of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth.

My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of the Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the sun has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace. - Danny Rollings

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

A person in search of his ancestors naturally likes to believe the best of them, and the best in terms of contemporary standards. Where genealogical facts are few, and these located in the remote past, reconstruction of family history is often more imaginative than correct.

When we think of our lives as what we have done, memory becomes a museum with one long shelf on which we arrange a bric-a-brac of deeds, each to his own liking.

Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails.

While adverse consequences of 100 years from now are obviously less pressing than those of next year, if they are also of large magnitude and irreversible, we cannot in good conscience discount them.

the working majority that actually makes current decisions, and not even to the whole of the living population, but to those who came before us, who provided our traditions and our physical patrimony as nations, and to those who will come after us, and who will inherit what we leave behind. Decisions in the environmental arena often touch on this broader sense of public responsibility, and we cannot afford to lose it among the numbers.

Klan women and men saw themselves not as bigoted extremists but as good Christians and good patriots joining proudly in a moral crusade.

Time to plant trees is when you're young, So you will have them to walk among - So, aging, you can walk in shade That you and time together made.

Anno domini—that's the most fatal complaint of all in the end.

Brookfield will never forget his lovableness," said Cartwright, in a speech to the School. Which was absurd, because all things are forgotten in the end.