Quotes About Legacy

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

My greatest thrill? That's easy. It came the day Mr. McGraw named his 20 all-time players. I'm ninth on that list and that is thrill enough to last me a lifetime.

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

I hope everybody's had fun, because I've enjoyed my ride. I can tell you that. Now it's time to step aside and let some other young kid come in and win. Hopefully, they will, too.

I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened.

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

I served. And now it's time for the new man to serve. I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.