Quotes About Legacy

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends.

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown About the winds of the world, and fades from brains Of living men, and dies.

If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

When a jockey retires, he just becomes another little man

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man