Quotes About Legacy

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.

I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.

Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.

Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books.

The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white as the dogwood blossom, a badge of unimpeachable credibility in Confucian eyes. Inscrutable because he had gone to his grave without divulging the Secret of the Eleven Herbs and Spices.

But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost—swallowed up in the ocean—unless you are doing it along with like-minded people who will remember your contributions and carry them forward.

there was nothing you couldn't accomplish if you crowded a few tens of millions of peasants together on the best land in the world and then never stopped raping their brains out for a thousand years.

When later generations come to read about our history they will think they are reading a romance, and not believe a word of it.

The tragedy—and the entire point—of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you.

Now there are many Shaftoes—mostly in Tennessee—but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.