Quotes About Legacy

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.